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“Smart” Rubbish Bins to allow Advance Monitoring
January 16, 2012A joint venture between Swiss industrial wireless network specialist Paradox Engineering and Rete di Imprese STEP - a group which comprises Italian firms Tecnotel, Sortron and PZ - have developed a system to monitor the input of waste into rubbish bins. Such control will allow an optimisation of collection routes and solve other urban waste collection issues.
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This high tech waste management system has been labelled SWINGS - Solid Waste Integrated Network Gathering System - backed by the entrepreneurial association CNA Industria Forlì-Cesena. The concept of this monitoring system is fairly simple and consists of the implementation of an electric-mechanical system on traditional rubbish bins in order to monitor the input of waste and therefore optimise its collections.
The pilot project is ready to be launched and it will start in April in the province of Forlì-Cesena in the centre of Italy. Nine hundred rubbish bins will be fitted with the monitoring device which will serve a total of 11,000 users.
According to the companies involved SWINGS could generate an array of benefits, including economical and environmental ones, and they are:
• Increase the efficiency of urban solid waste collection through an accurate evaluation of the input of waste and service costs.
• Creation of a statistical base concerning environmental services usage.
• Make the separate collection of waste easier
• Environmental impact reduction
How it works
Paradox said that SWINGS improves the collection and management of urban solid waste by implementing an ad hoc designed electric-mechanical system on dump bins. It consists of an intelligent unit for user authentication and access, and a wireless transmitter for data collection and dump bins remote management.
Users are equipped with customised electronic keys to open the bin and put the rubbish in. Every bin can selectively manage users’ access and record the different inputs.
Collected data is wireless delivered to rubbish trucks and then sent to a central station for consolidation and analysis. Energy is supplied to the bins through a rechargeable battery and a photovoltaic solar panel.
Paradox said that the system incorporates its PE.AMI technology, which allows the collection of access data and the monitoring of parameters such as the status of the bin and the filling level, etc.
Through this the service provider obtains up-to-date information that, once elaborated, can aid decisions concerning access authorisations, such as only people from a specific area access to a specific bin, as well as the introduction of personalised fees and the optimisation of refuse collection routes.
This new and innovative waste management and collection technology could provide the solution Councils across the UK have been seeking for years to optimise it collections services as well was help users avoid “rubbish bin fines”.
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