title: IoT-based smart garbage system for efficient food waste management.
abstract: Owing to a paradigm shift toward Internet of Things (IoT), researches into IoT services have been conducted in a wide range of fields. As a major application field of IoT, waste management has become one such issue. The absence of efficient waste management has caused serious environmental problems and cost issues. Therefore, in this paper, an IoT-based smart garbage system (SGS) is proposed to reduce the amount of food waste. In an SGS, battery-based smart garbage bins (SGBs) exchange information with each other using wireless mesh networks, and a router and server collect and analyze the information for service provisioning. Furthermore, the SGS includes various IoT techniques considering user convenience and increases the battery lifetime through two types of energy-efficient operations of the SGBs: stand-alone operation and cooperation-based operation. The proposed SGS had been operated as a pilot project in Gangnam district, Seoul, Republic of Korea, for a one-year period. The experiment showed that the average amount of food waste could be reduced by 33%.
authors.affiliation: School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 151-756, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Insung
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-4100-7765
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Hong
authors.affiliation: School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 151-756, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Sunghoi
authors.identifier: 0000-0001-9635-4708
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Park
authors.affiliation: School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 151-756, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Beomseok
authors.identifier: 0000-0003-3823-5502
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 151-756, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Jaekeun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 151-756, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Daebeom
authors.identifier: 0000-0003-4843-5217
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Jeong
authors.affiliation: School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 151-756, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Sehyun
authors.identifier: 0000-0001-7152-5283
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Park
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D005502:Food; D005735:Garbage; D005843:Geography; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D010865:Pilot Projects; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D056910:Republic of Korea; D018505:Waste Management / Q000379:methods*