Remote Assessment Sensor Routing: An Application for Waste Management

The urban waste management industry deals with the collection, transport, processing, recycling, disposal, and monitoring of waste materials. Although each aspect of the waste cycle is crucial, the collection process tends to be the most significant and costly portion of the entire activity. Therefore any cost savings that can be made in this area would potentially improve service in other areas and result in major budget savings. In the context of municipal solid waste collection, this involves the use of remote sensing technologies at garbage bins to relay information to a central server about bin fill-levels. The central server would then take into account each day’s bin fill levels and dispatch the appropriate number of vehicles on specific routes to the given pick up locations.

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