ABSTRACT
Recent developments in Internet of Things (IoT) have significantly changed modern lifestyles through linkages of smart objects and smart applications that can be controlled anytime anywhere in the world. It is expected that as of 2021, more than 35 billion devices are connected with each other under the broad IoT umbrella. The autonomous nature of IoT brings an opportunity for virtual representation and unique identification of devices, applications, and services. Lower costs, lower levels of energy consumption, higher levels of outputs, smart and user-friendly precincts, and others are some factors behind rising popularity of IoT, which is also becoming more effective in providing higher levels of security and reducing errors and abuses. In this paper, we describe a model of smart dustbin designed and configured by the authors, and explain how the smart dustbin model can be applied efficiently to achieve smart environmental goals. This example of smart dustbin application can be adopted by cities and communities to maximize public health and hygiene objectives in smarter ways, and to curb negative impacts of public health crises situations such as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and other infectious diseases that may bring any type of pandemic in the future. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
ABSTRACT
India has perceived an enormous upsurge in garbage during 21st century due to adopting urbanization rapidly. In addition, as the population increasing drastically, which inherently produce huge amount of garbage. The overflow of the garbage and lack of maintenance are the main reasons for many diseases and also for spoiling earth environment. However, the entire world has faced the problems due to spreading of Covid-19 through the air due to the hazard waste is being generated in specific Covid hospitals, quarantine zones are directly dumped into the dustbins. The frontline warriors (doctor, nurse, police) working in these unorganized dustbin environments are getting infected with Covid-19 and are became a primary contact for spreading of virus. Thus, it is very much essential to implement a systematized and well-designed mechanism to overcome this problem. In this work, a hardware prototype for smart dustbin based on Arduino has been proposed that can be installed in hospitals, medical centres, municipalities, households for the sake of environment as well as front-line workers. The proposed model of smart dustbin has PIR sensor and ultrasonic sensor for human motion detection and sense the level of garbage present in the bin respectively. An alert system based on GSM has been interfaced with Arduino which sends the alert messages based on level of the garbage at regular intervals. The proposed model work with very low power and increase the security for front-line workers from the Covid-19. © 2021 IEEE.