Tracking of Health Care Waste using Global Positioning System during COVID'19

Handling Medical waste during this pandemic is the most challenging job of the sanitary workers involved in collecting, segregation, and disposal. If not appropriately segregated and disposed of, the collected waste leads to many health issues for the people residing in the nearby region. It also contaminates underground water, land and causes harmful effects on the environment. The Municipality workers find it difficult in tracking the waste from collection to dump yard until it is adequately incinerated. This paper focuses on tracking the bin from the collection centre to the dump yard by using GPS (Global Positioning System). The officials can also trace the route by integrating the proposed system with Google Maps to check whether the collected waste has been transported adequately to the incineration centres. © 2022 IEEE.

Watchful System to keep track of Hazardous waste during COVID'19 epidemic

Biomedical waste is broadly classified as Hazardous and non-hazardous healthcare waste. Hazardous waste includes Pathological waste, Pharmaceutical waste, infectious waste and chemical waste etc. Non-hazardous waste is the general health care waste that adds waste while packaging, administrative and from housekeeping etc., from a research laboratory and any pharmaceuticals. Around 25% of the healthcare wastes are infectious, which produces serious health care issues and a hazardous consequence on the environment if not handled properly. This paper aims at providing a monitoring and alerting system in disposing of waste that releases harmful gases into the environment. The proposed method monitors the gas leakage from the collected waste. If the waste concentration exceeds the optimum limit, it alerts the system to dispose of it immediately. © 2022 IEEE.

An Alert system to maintain social distancing while collecting waste from quarantined zones - COVID'19

COVID'19 (Corona Virus Disease) has given a warning sign to humanity to either live with nature or the planet will change us for its living. The amount of waste generated during this pandemic is remarkably higher than the usual situation. The most generated waste is single-use plastic like a glove, mask, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) etc. If this waste is not appropriately managed, it leads to coercion on the ecosystem, wildlife, pollution, and environmental changes. This paper proposes an Alert system for sanitary workers to maintain social distancing while collecting waste from quarantine zones. Also, the collected waste can be video streamed by a mobile-enabled ESP32 CAM device to verify whether the waste has been segregated at the source. © 2022 IEEE.

BIOBIN for Safe handling and disposing of Biomedical waste during COVID '19

Generation of waste during the treatment and diagnose of COVID'19 have to handled separately as per the guidelines provided by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) in addition to Biomedical Waste Management (BWM) rules. The collection of this biomedical waste from quarantine wards, isolation wards, laboratory and COVID test centres etc. have to be kept separately and should be immediately handed over to the Common Bio-medical Waste Treatment and Disposal Facility (CBWTF). Hence this paper proposes an IoT enabled BIOBIN for continuously monitoring and alerting the sanitary workers involved in this collection for regular cleaning and disposing of this harmful biomedical waste promptly.