Waste Vision, a global leader in smart waste solutions, is transforming waste management for cities and businesses with IoT-based technology. Using sensor-equipped waste stations connected via Telenor IoT’s managed connectivity, Waste Vision enables real-time waste monitoring to optimize collection schedules, reduce operational costs, and prevent litter overflows.
Background
Waste Vision is a company based in the Netherlands that is currently expanding throughout Europe, North America, and the Middle East to provide solutions to the emerging demand for urban waste management. Traditional waste gathering typically brings about a lot of inefficiency and high costs. In integrating IoT solutions, Waste Vision will enable cities to track waste levels, improving overall efficiency while helping urban settings stay clean.
Challenges
The increase in urbanization has resulted in manifold volumes of waste testing conventional methods of waste management. Overflowing bins, rigid collection schedules, and extremely high operational costs result in adverse impacts on cleanliness and citizen satisfaction. Waste Vision's IoT-enabled solution is targeted at mitigating these challenges by offering municipalities a more sustainable and effective way of dealing with solid waste.
The Waste Vision platform offers a suite of smart sensors and access control systems for waste containers. Driven by Telenor IoT, Waste Vision provides secure and reliable roaming connectivity across 2G, 3G, and 4G networks to support real-time information from waste stations and make collection schedules and operations more efficient in cities.
Sensors Used
Waste Vision’s solution leverages various IoT-enabled devices to offer autonomous waste management capabilities:
- Drum sensors that detect blockages inside containers so as to ensure smooth, uninterrupted processes for the disposal and collection of waste.
- Fill level sensors: these sensors can measure the fill level of a container to enable waste collection only when actually required, which avoids unnecessary pickups that result in saving fuel.
- Alarms when there is unauthorized access to the service doors of the waste containers for added security.
- Radar sensors: these are attached near the bins for detection of litter lying outside the container so that the situation may be acted upon ASAP to keep the area clean.
- Fill level lighting helps people use the bins appropriately through different visuals, thereby reducing overflows.
Benefits
By monitoring real-time waste data, cities can plan collection routes based on actual needs, cutting down labor and fuel expenses. As an environmental impact reduced truck trips imply lower CO2 emissions, noise pollution, and traffic congestion. Citizen engagement is easily promoted due to the ease with which the fill level lighting is comprehensible, encouraging responsible waste disposal and hence cleaning and sustaining urban spaces.
Results
The Waste Vision solution has saved 25% of waste collection costs, mainly from reduced collections and lower fuel usage. With its clear orientation towards a circular economy, Waste Vision helps cities increase their recycling rates while reducing environmental impacts, thus positioning itself as a key player within the worldwide smart waste management movement.