Waste management in smart cities using the Internet of Things network (IOT)
Subject Areas : wasteMohsen Bijanpoor 1 , Reza Ehtesham rasi 2 , Davvod Gharakhany 3
1 - PhD student, Department of Industrial Management, Qazvin branch, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran.
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial Management, Qazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran. *(Correspondence Author)
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial Management, Qazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran.
Keywords: Internet of things, recycling, waste, separation, smart city.,
Abstract :
Background and Objective: Today's world is a world of consumption. Earth's resources are limited and human desire to consume all kinds of goods is increasing day by day. Protecting the environment is a global responsibility and the inhabitants of the planet all over the world should be committed to it. In recent years, the issue of waste has clearly become a crisis in most countries of the world, especially developing and underdeveloped countries, and therefore the use of new and efficient tools, programs and approaches to prevent and control the urban waste crisis is absolutely necessary. It is essential. Waste management is the most important task of city management that imposes huge costs on city residents. The collection, disposal and recycling of urban wastes requires spending significant costs to invest in the creation of a fleet of wastes, as well as the implementation of recycling or destruction of urban wastes. Also, spending exorbitant operating costs for the wages of workers and drivers, paying fuel costs and fleet maintenance has turned urban waste management into an expensive but necessary process in urban management. Internet of Things (IOT) is one of the new and desirable tools to reduce the costs of urban waste management.
Material and Methodology: In this article, by reviewing the literature on the subject, the concept of a smart city is first stated, and then the basic necessities of creating smart cities are examined. In the next step, the prerequisites and methods of using the Internet of Things as well as the necessary equipment for using the Internet of Things in urban waste management have been introduced.
Findings: Based on the review of the subject literature and previous research and considering the existing conditions of the country, a 5-layer model of Internet of Things deployment was proposed to optimize urban waste management costs. Also, the barriers to using the Internet of Things network in cities have been briefly stated.
Discussion and Conclusion: Setting up the 5-layer Internet of Things network proposed in this article has an important role in reducing the costs of waste transportation due to the availability of reservoirs in which a sufficient amount of waste has been collected for transportation. In other words, by using the Internet of Things network in cities, the urban waste transportation network will be activated only when the collection of sufficient waste from the target reservoirs is certain. Also, the proposed Internet of Things network, by making available the data related to the collectable amounts of each type of urban waste, enables the planning of the delivery of the raw materials needed for the daily production of the recycling factories of each type of urban waste, and from this This way will increase the production of recycled goods. In order to use the Internet of Things in urban waste management, the operation of separating waste from its origin becomes a daily operational necessity, which itself causes an increase in the production of recycled goods and a decrease in burial operations or disposal of waste in incinerators.
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