The Municipal authority at Kakinada is responsible for collection, segregation, transportation, dumping and processing of the city waste from door to door. Authority has deployed vehicles for collection of door to door waste and dumping into the bins/collection points at strategic locations. From these bins/collection point separate four wheeler (loaders) carries the waste to the single location called waste processing plant. Also, authority has field staff responsible for street and collection of street waste and dumping to the nearest bin/collection points.
For the authorities to manage the people responsible for the activity and proper utilization of assets/resources assigned to them had become a complex job. The main problem faced by them concerning to the solid waste management process were as follows
A GIS/GPS enable Solid Waste Management System practices within the existing landscape to:
After undertaking the site survey of the concerned city and by thoroughly making itself aware of the ground realities and the associated challenges prevailing there, BioEnable Technologies proposed the following set of solution for kakinada City
BioEnable Technologies installed GPS with RS 232 communication module in all the waste collection vehicle as the vehicle were supposed to be fitted with RFID Reader and the RFID Reader would communicate with GPS using RS 232 communication thus enabling the GPS device to share the relevant data transmitted by RFID Reader to the relevant server.
Benefits:
The waste collection vehicle were fitted with RFID Reader and the bins were fitted with passive RFID Tag. The same were fitted in such a manner that whenever the vehicle lifted the bin, the RFID Reader would only read the tag when the bin and tag would be in a distance less than 1 feet thus ensuring the bin was lifted properly and cleared.
The Smart Bin Sensor provided a second level of authentication regarding Bin clearance, the bin sensor raised an alarm in the concerned software when the garbage in the Bin reached an alarming level. Thus ensuring the authorities are aware that th bin is about to reach its maximum fill level. Also the bin sensor is programmed to send fill Level information at regular time intervals. Thus ensuring the authorities are constantly updated about the amount of garbage present in the bins.
Benefits:
As the authorities were not able to monitor the attendance of on field staff and not able to ensure the requisite work allocated to them was completed. BioEnable provided the authorities with a Hand Held Terminal having an inbuilt GPS and GPRS technology so the requisite authorities / supervisor can take attendance of the field staff remotely also get updated about their working location.
Benefits:
With the idea and intention 0f providing on time and quick service regarding bin clearance BioEnable provided a Driver Mobile Application to the concerned authorities.
The Mobile Application will allow the driver to see all the bins at Kakinada which are fitted with Bin Sensor so the driver can see the live fill level status of the bins and also the Mobile Application will let the driver to see bins which are allocated to his Ward / Zone. The Mobile Application will help the driver reach the bin through the shortest possible path from the driver’s current location thus ensuring lesser fuel consumption with better service.
Along with the Driver Mobile App, BioEnable will also provide the concerned authorities with two more Mobile Application i.e one for the Citizen and one for the Staff. The Citizen will use the mobile application to alert the authorities of any overflowing bin, by taking it’s picture and by filling the requisite details. After the concerned bin is cleared by the authorities the Staff can use the Staff mobile application to send the confirmation message along with photo to the citizen that his complaint has been attend and the needful has been done.
For overall management of the system and to ensure the smooth running of the proposed and installed hardware, BioEnable has provided the Software which is distributed in three parts so as to ensure smooth and easy usage of the software by the concerned authorities. The concerned software has been distribute in the following parts:
Benefits:
1. Main Dashboard
2. Smart Bin Sensor Dashboard
3. GPS Dashboard
4. Reports