Garbage Bin Monitoring System using GSM

In today’s era, garbage bins are not being properly cleaned. It involves garbage spill
in resulting in land degradation, disease spread, as well as creating unhygienic
conditions for humans, and ugliness to that area. The main issues for this matter are
the garbage bins are not monitored. The process of monitoring garbage bins is
challenging because there are too many garbage bins and the distance are far apart.
Therefore, there is a need for monitoring system of the garbage bins. In this paper, a
garbage bin monitoring system using GSM is developed. The garbage bin is embedded
with an ultrasonic sensor to detect the level of the trash, and the data will be transmitted
via SMS using GSM module. This garbage bin that was developed helps us to monitor
the amount of waste filling by sending an alert via SMS to inform the filling status
level. This project has been tested by three-level, which is 30%, 50% and 90%. The
test cases were selected based on the practical ways of providing waste collection
service. The system was tested experimentally for the defined test cases. The test has
shown the effective garbage bin monitoring system using GSM by validating the
defined test cases. This is shown that the garbage bin monitoring system using GSM
could be a great resource in solid waste management.