Solid Waste Monitoring and Revenue Generation System

Abstract

Waste management is very important and therefore each society must work hard to manage waste to keep the environment clean. There has been a drastic increase in the amount of waste being produced in Ghana and the world as a whole. Sources of waste vary and it may include: domestic, commercial, industrial, and agricultural. Unmanaged waste can have many negative effects on our environment and the human resources of the country. A lot of waste management companies have systems put in place to help with the management of waste in our society. Some of these existing systems require improvement to monitor waste. Moreover, revenue collection and management are still a challenge for waste management companies. In most cases, agents go around to manually collect revenue. To offer solutions to these challenges, we developed an Internet of Things (IoT) based system to offer complete monitoring and revenue management. Our system can monitor waste being dumped into it using ultrasonic sensors to measure waste levels and automatically transmit the information that has been captured to a server via a wireless mobile network connection. This information can be accessed by administrators via a web and an Android mobile application. The Android mobile application allows users and collectors to access information on waste levels in bins and also a revenue collection system that will allow users to make payments via mobile money. All activities and information generated from the mobile application are then passed on to a database server which can be accessed by the administrator via a web application. Our system will improve waste monitoring and revenue management since most of the manual processes have been automated.