Inspiration
Have you ever employed garbage collection services? If so, you have experienced how non-technological it is. Imagine if you could, at the tap of a button, monitor the waste levels in your smart bins.
What it does
Smart bin project is your garbage collection friend. As a savior to both the client and the service provider, Smart Bin monitors the trash levels of the bins and relays them in real-time to a dashboard that both the service provider and the client can kee track of. The client can request pick up at any time whereas the service provider has a whole area coverage mapped out with the exact locations of each bin and the trash levels in each bin. From this perspective, garbage collection can operate from a data-driven position rather than acting on hopeful thinking.
How we built it
We build the mobile app via React while the server was build with firebase and Azure IoT. Sensor was programmed in Arduino C. We focused on communication between the server and the sensor and mobile app being as smooth as possible and on real time.
Challenges we ran into
Communication between sensors and server was over wifi compared to the preferred Lo-Ra-WAN communication that is most suitable in the remote areas without ready internet.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Building such a product that can readily be pushed in to the market and is easily adaptable into the society without changing a lot.
What we learned
IoT communication between servers, sensors, and mobile app is a major uphill task that we have learned and conquered.
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