Published February 28, 2019

Garbage monitoring system using bolt and arduino

Environment is so peace we should keep our surroundings neat and clean by putting the waste in bins and save our lives from many diseases

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Garbage monitoring system using bolt and arduino

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Bolt IoT Bolt WiFi Module

Arduino UNO

Ultrasonic Sensor - HC-SR04 (Generic)

Jumper wires (generic)

Software apps and online services

Bolt IoT Bolt Cloud

Arduino IDE

Story

Hello! this is Likhitha Maddula this project is part of my Internshala training under Internet of things (iot) using machine learning(ML) powered by bolt Iot. My aim to get smart dustbins and control the overflow of garbage so implemented this project.

Problem:

Nowadays, there are tons of flats and apartments which have been builtin 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. Moreover it is a waste of fuel to travel around a complex or an area to find that some of the garbage are filled and some are not. Also, on rare days, problems might arise that there is so much garbage that the truck doesn’t have enough capacity. The idea struck us when we observed that the garbage truck use to go around the town to collect solid waste twice a day. Although this system was thorough it was very inefficient.

Main problem:

Hardware components:

Bolt wifimodule 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.

Device View

Bolt

Bolt wifi module v2

BOLT functionalities

> Station mode in which it can connect to WiFi networks.
>When not connected to any WiFi network it hosts its own WiFi hotspot to which users can connect.
>Commands an AT mega to do all GPIO and UART based tasks
>Runs at a frequency of 80Mhz.

ULTRASONICSENSOR WORKING

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. The module has two eyes like projects in the front which forms the Ultrasonic transmitter and Receiver. The sensor works with the simple high school formula that.

Distance = Speed × Time

HC-SR04Ultrasonic

ARDUINOUNO

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 BOARD

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 prototype or test circuit, internally or with other prototype or test circuit, internally or with other equipment or components, without soldering.

Individual jump wires are fitted by inserting their “end connectors”into the slots provided in a breadboard, the header connector of a circuit board or a piece of test equipment.

jumper wires (male and female pins)

SOFTWARE APPS AND ONLINE SERVICES

1. BOLT IOT BOLT CLOUD

2. ARDUINO IDE

3. TWILLIO

BOLT IOT BLOT CLOUD

As per the mentioned above setup we can get thecloud accessed.

ARDUINOIDE

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 write and upload programs to Arduino board.

TWILLIO ACCOUNT

Step 1 : Login in the twillio account as above

Step 2 : Next you need to verify our phone number.

Step 3 : Next we will create the product as shown in the figure.

Step 4: then we select the programmable sms andphone number options due to we need to get sms so we use that.

Step 5: Next we click continue.

Step 6 : enter your project name and then continue.

Step 7 : you can skip this step

Step 8 : enter the project info

Step 9 : According to the step we need to select that.

Step 10 : you can the get started

Step 11 : next you need to generate the new phone number according to the option

Step 12 : Next we get the new phone number and you can now access the account.

Embedded video Link :

My theme to do smart city i will get a message when my garbage is fill at my home i will get a message by this way .

By this way truck driver also will get message and it is easy to find and collect the garbage where it is full .

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

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

garbage_full_limit = 10 # the distance between device and  garbage in dustbin in cm

API_KEY = "bolt cloud api"
DEVICE_ID  = "device"

# Credentials required to send SMS
SID = 'your twillio account sid'
AUTH_TOKEN = 'your twillio account auth token'
FROM_NUMBER = 'your twillio number'
TO_NUMBER = 'your number to get alert sms'

_

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('13')
print(response)

while True:
    response = mybolt.serialRead('13')  #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

Likhitha Maddula

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Garbage monitoring system using bolt and arduino

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Software apps and online services

Story

Problem:

Main problem:

Hardware components:

SOFTWARE APPS AND ONLINE SERVICES

Embedded video Link :

CONCLUSION

Schematics

Hardware Setup

Hardware connections process

Hardware connections

Code

SMS ALERT FROM TWILLIO

ultasconic

Credits

Likhitha Maddula

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Garbage monitoring system using bolt and arduino

Garbage monitoring system using bolt and arduino

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Software apps and online services

Story

Problem:

Main problem:

Hardware components:

SOFTWARE APPS AND ONLINE SERVICES

Embedded video Link :

CONCLUSION

Schematics

Hardware Setup

Hardware connections process

Hardware connections

Code

SMS ALERT FROM TWILLIO

ultasconic

Credits

Likhitha Maddula

Comments

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