Inspiration: Our trip to Six Flags, we had a lot of fun going on rides and other various things. But one thing that we didn't think much about was how much of an impact unclean trash cans are. We thought about how much worse a park looks with the trash being overfilled. We then decided to go to the corner of the park. This point in the park had trash cans that were mostly empty.
What it does: Intellibin is an app that has the goal of making waste management a lot easier. To make public areas a lot better and much more cleaner. The users can easily access real-time information about the public trash cans they have. By using the sensors, the user would know when the bin is full or about to be full.
How we built it: Our Intellibin app uses advanced software technology to have constant access to the trash. The information would be constantly checked from the sensors put at the top of the trash, this would give a signal on the application.
Challenges we ran into: We ran into a lot of challenges, the challenges would include the problem with sending the signal to the app, the application constantly needing an update with the new trash cans. Another issue would be encouraging the people to throw their trash without messing up the sensors. This could send a false signal in the application and cause some different errors.
Accomplishments that we're proud of: Knowing all of the challenges, we still have developed the idea of IntelliBin. A simple application that makes the environment a lot cleaner, makes public places look a lot better and makes the world much more cleaner.
What we learned: We learned multiple different methods including the use of how much more efficient communication with an app would be. We also learned how useful making an application would be. It allows easy action for an app to access all the units in a specific region.
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