EU had set goals to for waste separation and recycling but it was not able to achieve it, the goal had to be viable economically and environmentally
The waste collection is routinely scheduled and cannot be adjusted when there is spike in waste
sorting of waste difficult as citizens mix up the waste
feed of waste reaching recycling unit is not efficient
routine pick up of trucks is not optimized
Best location of street garbage containers to minimize costs is difficult to estimate since lack of qualitative and quantitative data
containers many a times displaced by by-passers for car parking or by vandals
Sorting depends on the understanding of citizens, lack of appropriate directions to the citizens regarding sorting
Citizens have no feedback about their efforts in sorting and how much waste they created
Burba project developed an innovative product to optimize waste management through the use of RFID & LBS technologies, they got it integrated into an intelligent waste container
Intelligent waste container will be able to identify the citizen through a personal RFID card which will be used to open the lid of the container and this data can be used to give feedback to the citizen, the smart container is able to identify items marked with RFID tags.
By these methods a citizen is notified how much waste he created and also whether he separated/sorted the waste accordingly, on the basis of this municipality can create incentive based recycling programs and charge citizens accordingly
In future it is expected that everything will have RFID tags, so when citizen try to dispose of item, RFID can be used to identify type of waste and can help the citizen separating the waste.
(RFID Makes Surgery Safe)
Have you ever heard, that doctor forget towel in a person's stomach after operation, I have heard this numerous times, surgical towels are used either they are placed under the organ to stop bleeding or give better exposure of that organ to the doctor so doctor can operate, sometimes doctor forgets that towel and close the cut.
Actually towels are counted before getting into operating table, dustbin is emptied, each time towels are counted before inserting and removing, but even then can doctors forget them, it is quite a common scene with every 1/3000 to 1/5000 cases, in case of stomach operation it is 1 in 1000/1500.
this is not actually doctor's carelessness, but human error, there is such a mess during operation, this mistake is serious trouble to patients, they might develop puss in that area and severe infection and pain
Solution
IOT(Internet of Things)
is going to help here
In order to solve this problem, surgical towels should be equipped with RFID, so that each towel can be identified, and by installing RFID antennas it is possible to track all the towels and make sure that no towels are missing
Currently because of very high prices surgical towels with integrated RFID are not available in market but it is completely implemented in Munich Germany Isar River University Hospital
(Monna Connected Birds)
Monna plans to launch Europe into global leadership for monitoring nature, it combines technical development for analysis of bird migration, it is based on research and development of bird monitoring system and use that data in scientific, technological and academic field
Aguila Technologies have developed this systems, the tracker developed for Monna relies on a miniaturized high sensitive GNSS/GPS geo positioning technology. The GPS used allows to receive quality signals even when poor satellite coverage and in bad weather conditions.
The long range transmission relies on UNB (Ultra Narrow band) technology, Monna trackers use the sigfox network which allows European coverage
The embedded transmission carried by bird can send data up to 30km.
Monna Project Also Received award in 2013 from the SIAD (Salon International de l’ Agriculture Durable)
UN estimates that more than 50% of people will live in cities, and it is estimated that it will continue to grow, only 3% space is occupied by cities but
This is actually implemented concept in SANTANDER in Spain
Santander Team is trying to build a smart city, where IOT enabled devices are installed everywhere in the city including inside roads, city has already installed over 12000 sensors across the city to make the city real laboratory in which scientific community can investigate on which companies can develop business application and products and which help citizens in improvement in their quality of life
Key features of converting to smart city is driver knows where parking space is available, so he gets straight to it, reducing traffic on the road, saving fuel and also less emissions, they have sensors panels on the roads which monitor certain gases, c02 levels, humidity and so on
This is already happening few of the cities are already been or getting converted into smart cities
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