Published February 28, 2019

Garbage Monitoring System Using Bolt&arduino

An innovative way which help to keep our cities clean and healthy.

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Garbage Monitoring System Using Bolt&arduino

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Bolt IoT Bolt WiFi Module

Ultrasonic Sensor - HC-SR04 (Generic)

Arduino UNO

Jumper wires (generic)

Software apps and online services

Bolt IoT Bolt Cloud

Arduino IDE

Story

INTRODUCTION

Hello! I am Karuna Shrivatstav. This project is the part of my Internshala training under IOT using ML, powered by BOLT IoT. I am really excited and even thankful to the platform to support me and known a lot during the training.i will really suggest for the beginners to choose the platform. okay going through the project

We are living in an age where tasks and systems are fusing together with the power of IoT to have a more efficient system of working and to execute jobs quickly!With all the power at our finger tips this is what we have come up with. The Internet of Things (IoT) shall be able to incorporate transparently and seamlessly a large number of different systems, while providing data for millions of people to use and capitalize. One of the main concerns with our environment has been solid waste management which impacts the health and environment of our society.

This is my solution using IoT garbage monitoring system, an innovative way that will help to keep the cities clean and healthy.

THE PROBLEM

Nowadays, there are tons of flats and apartments which have been built in the rapid urbanization area. This is due to high housing demands which have been drastically risen as a result of migration from villages to cities to find work. In order to accommodate the growing population in the urban area, the government has also constructed more apartment complexes. There are several issues faced by the residents of the flats. One of them is disposal of solid waste. Unlike private houses, the residents of all the apartments use a common dustbin, which tends to fill up very quickly. This overflowing of garbage is a sanitary issue which might cause diseases like cholera and dengue.

What our system does is it gives a real time indicator of the garbage level in a trash can at any given time. Using that data we can then optimize waste collection routes and ultimately reduce fuel consumption. It allows trash collectors to plan their daily/weekly pick up schedule. An Ultrasonic Sensor is used for detecting whether the trash can is filled with garbage or not. Here Ultrasonic Sensor is installed at the top of Trash Can and will measure the distance of garbage from the top of Trash can and we can set a threshold value according to the size of trash can

the main problem in our cities is overflowing of bins.......

HARDWARE COMPONENTS

¨We will need the following hardware to accomplish our project.

¨Bolt wifi module v2

¨HC-SR04 ultrasonic sensor.

¨ Arduino Uno.

¨Jumper wires

BOLTWIFI MODULE V2

¨BOLT is an internet of things platform Hardware + Software that enables user to build IOT products and projects. Using BOLT, users can control and monitor devices from any part of the world

ARDUINO UNO

¨Arduino is an open-source platform used for building electronics projects. Arduino consists of both a physical programmable circuit board (often referred to as a micro controller) and a piece of software, or IDE (Integrated Development Environment) that runs on your computer, used to write and upload computer code to the physical board.

ARDUINO UNO

HC-SR04 ULTRASONIC SENSOR

The HC-SR04 Ultrasonic (US) sensor is a 4 pin module, whose pin names are Vcc, Trigger, Echo and Ground respectively. This sensor is a very popular sensor used in many applications where measuring distance or sensing objects are required

HC-SC04 ULTRASONIC SENSOR

JUMPER WIRES

¨A jumper wire (also known as jumper) is an electrical wire, or group of them in a cable, with a connector or pin at each or some times without them tinned, which is normally used to interconnect the components of a bread board or the other.

JUMPER WIRES

SOFTWARE APPS AND ONLINE SERVICES

¨BOLT IOT BOLT CLOUD

¨ARDUINO IDE

¨BOLT IOT BOLT CLOUD

AS PER THE SOFTWARE WE NEED OUR BOLT DEVICE ID AND EVEN THE API KEY THAT CAN HELP US TO CONNECT OUR CONNECTIONS IN THE ARDUINO UNO BOARD.

STEP 1:

WE NEED TO LOGIN INTO BOLT CLOUD.BY USING YOUR USER NAME AND PASSWORD.

STEP 2:

THEN WE AND FIND THE PAGE SUCH AS..

LOGINED INTO THE ACCOUNT

1. WE CHECK ITS OUR ACCOUNT.

2.NEXT WE CAN CHECK OUR DEVICE BOLT ID

3.NEXT WE NEED TO MOVE TO THE API KEY

STEP 3:

WE NEED TO COPY OUR API KEY.

API KEY IS COPIED

SO AS PER THE ABOVE STEPS WE HAVE TO USE THE KEY FOR THE CODE..

NOTE: IN THIS WE ARE NOT GOING TO WRITE ANY PROGRAM. JUST USE THE API KEY TO ACCESS VALUES FROM THE CLOUD.

ARDUINO IDE

THE ARDUINO integrateddevelopment environment (IDE) IS A CROSS-PLATFORM APPLICATION(FOR WINDOWS, MAC OS, LINUX)THAT IS WRITTEN IN THE PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE JAVA. IT IS USED TO UPLOAD PROGRAMS TO ARDUINO BOARD.

here I used the virtual machine regarding to access the code

TWILLIO

WE NEED TO CREATE THE ACCOUNT FOR SMS..

ADVANTAGE

1. VERY CIRCUIT SIMPLE

2. THE HC-SRO4 SENSOR IS VERY RUGGED .HELPS MONITOR GARBAGE LEVELS.

3. USES VERY SMALL AMOUNT OF ELECTRICITY.

4. ULTIMATELY HELPS IN BETTER PLANNING OF GARBAGE PICKS UP.

CAN HELP IN REDUCING OVERFLOWING BINS.

DISADVANTAGE

1.CANNOT DETECT LIQUID WASTES.

2. ONLY DETECTS THE TOP TO THE GARBAGE LEVEL.

CONCLUSION

WE BUILT AN EFFICIENT GARBAGE MONITORING SYSTEM WHICH CAN BE USED TO MONITOR THE LEVEL OF GARBAGE IN THE DUMP. THIS DATA CAN BE FURTHER USED TO PLAN GARBAGE COLLECTION TRIPS MORE EFFICIENTLY,ULTIMATELY REDUCING OVERFLOW BINS AND HELPING HAVE BETTER PUBLIC SANITATION.

Code

/*
 * Ultrasonic Simple
 * Prints the distance read by an ultrasonic sensor in
 * centimeters. They are supported to four pins ultrasound
 * sensors (liek HC-SC04) and three pins (like PING)))
 * and Seeed Studio sesores).
 *
 * The circuit:
 * * Module HR-SC04 (four pins) or PING))) (and other with
 *   three pins), attached to digital pins as follows:
 * ---------------------    ---------------------
 * | HC-SC04 | Arduino |    | 3 pins  | Arduino |
 * ---------------------    ---------------------
 * |   Vcc   |   5V    |    |   Vcc   |   5V    |
 * |   Trig  |   12    | OR |   SIG   |   13    |
 * |   Echo  |   13    |    |   Gnd   |   GND   |
 * |   Gnd   |   GND   |    ---------------------
 * ---------------------
 * Note: You need not obligatorily use the pins defined above
 * 
 * By default, the distance returned by the distanceRead()
 * method is in centimeters, to get the distance in inches,
 * pass INC as a parameter.
 * Example: ultrasonic.distanceRead(INC)
 *
 * created 3 Apr 2014
 * by Erick Simões (github: @ErickSimoes | twitter: @AloErickSimoes)
 * modified 23 Jan 2017
 * by Erick Simões (github: @ErickSimoes | twitter: @AloErickSimoes)
 * modified 03 Mar 2017
 * by Erick Simões (github: @ErickSimoes | twitter: @AloErickSimoes)
 *
 * This example code is released into the MIT License.
 */

#include <Ultrasonic.h>

/*
 * Pass as a parameter the trigger and echo pin, respectively,
 * or only the signal pin (for sensors 3 pins), like:
 * Ultrasonic ultrasonic(13);
 */
Ultrasonic ultrasonic(12, 13);

void setup() {
  Serial.begin(9600);
  
  }

void loop() {

  Serial.println(ultrasonic.distanceRead());
  delay(1000);
}

from boltiot import Bolt, Sms #Import Sms and Bolt class from boltiot library
import json, time

garbage_full_limit = 5 # the distance between device and  garbage in dustbin in cm

API_KEY = "your Bolt Cloud api key"
DEVICE_ID  = "your device id"

# Credentials required to send SMS
SID = 'your twilio sid'
AUTH_TOKEN = 'your twilio auth token'
FROM_NUMBER = 'This is the no. generated by Twilio. You can find this on your Twilio Dashboard'
TO_NUMBER = 'This is your number. Make sure you are adding country code in the beginning'

mybolt = Bolt(API_KEY, DEVICE_ID) #Create object to fetch data
sms = Sms(SID, AUTH_TOKEN, TO_NUMBER, FROM_NUMBER) #Create object to send SMS
response = mybolt.serialRead('10')
print response

while True:
    response = mybolt.serialRead('10')  #Fetching the value from Arduino
    data = json.loads(response)
    garbage_value = data['value'].rstrip()
    print "Garbage level is", garbage_value
    if int(garbage_value) < garbage_full_limit:
        response = sms.send_sms('Hello DeBae, I am full- Trash Talker')
    time.sleep(200)

Credits

Karuna Shrivastav

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