1) In India, one of the most striking images is the cow, dogs, bull wandering on the road. India has an open garbage system, which means open garbage bins on the roads overflowing with stinking waste. Dogs, monkeys, pigs, rats and cows eat whatever they can find to survive. India also has fewer government and NGO services that deal with stray dogs.
2) An estimated 35 million stray dogs live in India and according to World Health Organisation (WHO) India faces about 18,000 to 20,000 cases of rabies every year. According to the WHO report an estimated 45 % of all deaths from rabies occur in South- East Asia out of which about 36 % of the world’s deaths from rabies happen in India itself.
3) Since plastic bags have invaded our lives, almost all garbage and food waste is disposed in plastic bags. These bags spill out either on the road or from municipality dustbins. Since the plastic bags are knotted at the mouth, street animals, unable to undo the knot, eat food leftovers including the plastic. Slowly, over time, they build up a huge amount of plastic inside their stomachs.
4) Sometimes small animals also get trapped inside the dustbin and often leading to their death.
In developing countries(less economy countries like Africa, India and many others) waste management is one of the biggest problem to tackle.
With the increase in demand of facilities, resources and food we are putting our self in an unsafe zone by contributing toward the waste formation. Each and every year tons and tons of waste are generated but only about 30-40% of it is recycled.
Garbage has become a serious problem in the world today. According to a report published in Nature journal, the problem of garbage or solid waste is assuming terrible proportions today. By the end of this century (2100,), garbage will be collected at the rate of 11 million tons per day globally, more than three times today’s rate. It implies that the garbage-generation which amounted to 3.5 million tons per day in 2010 will become 6 million tons per day by 2025. At present, people of India produce about 62 million tons of solid-waste annually. Out of this, 45 million tons of the garbage are left untreated and disposed of by civic agencies in an unscientific manner.
According to the report, urban India generates 109,589 tons of waste per day. Interestingly, the urban US produces 624,700 tons of garbage per day, which is the highest in the world, while the second largest happens to be urban China with 520,548 tons per day. India’s waste-generation will be more than 376,639 tons per day by 2025, especially with the population of urban India expected to increase to 538 million.Moreover, trash accumulation may result in providing homage to the most deadly animal of the planet (mosquitoes) which alone contributes in the death of millions of people. Mosquito breed in the optimum temperature ranging between 24°C- 28°C, they need very less water to breed even few drops of it is enough which the trash bins can easily provide. The most dangerous insect in the world is the mosquito. While mosquitoes carry a variety of nasty pathogens, the big killer is malaria. Fortunately, only the Anopheles mosquito transmits the deadly disease. According the survey published by WHO, there were an estimated 219 million cases of malaria in 87 countries.
I have build a smart sensing device device which would sense animals near dustbins or trapped inside the bin and keep a check on the spilling of wastes near it if the bin is full. It would also act as an alert system to notify the nearby people about the menace done by the animals. The Sparkfun Artemis device with Tensorflow would hear the sound made by animals and on that basis it will distinguish which animals is trapped inside the bin, it would direct the results to the people nearby through alarm to rescue the dog or any other animal.
Initially I wanted to use camera with the device and it would be the ideal configuration with this project but I got no information about the compatible camera modules I could use with the device so I tried to use with audio recognition.
First of all we need to have dog, cow sounds so that our device can detect if that animal is trapped inside the bin or nearby or not. I downloaded the datsets from internet having multiple audio clips of dog barking, cow moo. Later I recorded those clips through my Sparkfun Artemis device and sliced the code into 1 second audio clips for each animal. You can use online audio slicer, audacity or even python script can also do that for you. After that we need to upload those files for training in Google Colab. After uploading run the training script provided in the code section and get your converted model header file which can be used with our Artemis device. I have attached the script in code section use it to train your own model.
We will use Sparkfun quiic sensors to determine whether the bin is full or not and temperature,humidity sensor and tVOC sendor to determine whether there is foul smell from the bin which is injurious to environment, it will immediately alert people nearby to report it to municipality to clean the bins on time.
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