Shabash Kachra

sensors and wheels under the dustbin
Wifi module connection
uno board with all sensors connected inside the dustbin
Fully function project
App, there's a security switch
animation and alarm, after dustbin is stolen

Inspiration

We live in a hostel and somebody use to steel our dustbin, so we thought if we can create a solution for this problem.

What it does

Our project can be used as general purpose security system, it notifies you in real time when someone tried to steal your dustbin on your mobile app.

How we built it

It's an IOT project, we have used 2 sensors which are ultra sonic and IR sensors, along with a wifi module (ESP8266) all connected to an Arduino UNO board which is acting as hardware, software interface. Ultra Sonic sensor measures the distance from dustbin base to ground thus detecting the picking up of your dustbin and IR sensor calculates the number of rotations of wheel, thus detecting the drag motion. These sensors collects the data and send it to Arduino board and Wifi module takes the data from board and sends it to a adafruit server, our app fetches the data from adafruit server and accordingly rings the alarm, when the dustbin is being stolen.

Challenges we ran into

Everything was a challenge, 84% of our team were first time hackers and it was our first IOT project, we had to learn about arduino, sensors and its components. Wifi module connectivity was a really challenging task, selecting the right for the project and module design was also a challenge we faced.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We were able come with a solution to the problem. We are also proud of our team work we did.

What we learned

We learned new things like arduino board, sensors, how to code arduino board in just 2 days.

What's next for Shabash Kachra

We are planning to add more sensor gps so that it can be tracked and a smart city system can be created were if a dustbin is fully filled it will be notified to the authorized personel. so, that it can be replaced