Intelligent City Waste Management: An Effort Towards Swatch Bharat Abhiyaan

Abstract

Smart waste management concept nowadays emerges as a new phenomenon and it is mostly applied in Metropolitan cities where the production of waste is high and management of waste and awareness about waste management among the people is very low. Smart waste management helps to reduce waste, create waste for energy sources also helps to keep the environment clean and neat. All the city’s urban local bodies depending upon the available technology have to spend the money and innovate the new concept of waste management which is the main purpose of smart waste management.

This paper is focussing on smart waste management using the Internet of Things (IoT) and Android-based applications. The smart city project needs such a kind of application where using IoT and cloud-based technology the smart waste management will be done automatically using an Android App. We used the firebase cloud database to collect the dry and wet waste from households, restaurants and industry and provided the interface to all entities of Smart waste management like Household users, Waste Pickers and centralized waste dumping stations.