Waste management

Waste management

Most major cities in Uganda and Africa at large are affected by poor waste collection schemes. The available urban litter collection methods rely on dumb rubbish cans that normally overflow and take long to be attended to. Further more, the cans cannot easily be located on time and are easily vandalized. IOT strategies can be used to improve the rubbish collection methods in these cities by employing appropriate sensor technology to report when these cans are full and need emptying. Better still using these rubbish cans as Wifi repeater points to further improve free Internet access in the cities can incentivize the entire rubbish collection process by city dwellers. The more rubbish gets collected, the better data rates are offered to the city dwellers. The entire smart rubbish collection kit installation is energy sustaining using solar panels. With a sufficient installation of the rubbish kits, additional services such as to collect surveillance data and thereby improving security in the city. The kits can never be vandalized because each is tracked in real time.

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