Waste Management System in Smart Cities using IoT: An Overview

Abstract

In developing countries due to Increasing population and rapid urbanization, waste generation has become a signi cant challenge. In India, due to Rapid industrialization and population explosion people migrate from village to the cities, which result in generation of ample amount of Solid Waste. Due to a huge amount of waste thrown everywhere the biggest challenge is the waste management. No proper mechanism for collection and disposal of waste which signi cantly leads to increase in waste material. Furthermore, various other problems also occurred because of the existing systems which are not only inef cient and inadequate but they also involved non-scientific procedures in the solid waste management. The lack of intelligent technology and the increase of peoples toward big cities used to support the waste management system. It is also seen that at different spots dustbins are set like in open places which are fooding, for example, Industries, healing centers, Instructive Institutes. This flooding of bins creates unhygienic condition which leads to spread of various diseases. In the last few decades, Urbanization has increased tremendously which leads to expansion in waste material and Waste management is a serious issue to be considered. In this paper, an IoT-based smart waste monitoring and solid waste management system is proposed. This system helps to solve the problems associated with management of waste material and the IoT-based waste collection for the smart city.