Digital waste management using LoRa network a business case from lab to fab

Beliatis, Michail J.; Mansour, Hussam; Nagy, Szabolcs; Aagaard, Annabeth; Presser, Mirko

doi:10.1109/giots.2018.8534562

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“…However, regarding the practical application of LoRa based commercial sensors to commercial waste containers, in place and being used daily, the related research is scarce, being [14,51,52] some of the most relevant works that address the research on the sensor type up to the application and business case. In [14] the city of Salamanca was used as a use case, the authors used sensors developed by themselves together with commercial waste containers (although only surface ones), and in [51] the authors also developed the sensors and mostly addressed the business case, also using TheThingsNetwork as the underlying network for their trials, the same the one used on the trials presented below, however, using our own commercial gateways. In [52] the authors depict a case study in Luxembourg for improving the waste collection process.…”

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LoRaWAN and Urban Waste Management – A Trial

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Tremoceiro³

2021

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The city of Lisbon, has any other capital of a European country, has a large number of issues while managing the waste and recycling containers spread throughout the city. This document presents the results of a study promoted by the Lisbon City Council for trialing LPWAN technology on the waste management vertical under the Lisbon Smart City initiative. Current waste management is done using GSM sensors, and the aim is to use LPWAN to reduce the costs, improve range and reduce provisioning times when changing the communications provider. After an initial study, LoRa was selected as the LPWAN of choice for the trials. The study is composed of multiple use cases at different distances, types of recycling waste containers, placements (underground and surface) and different kinds of waste level measurement LoRa sensors, deployed in order to assess the impact of the different use cases on the LoRa sensor usage. The results shown that the underground waste containers present the most difficult challenge, where the container itself imposes attenuation levels of 26dB on the link budget. The results promoted the deployment of a city wide LoRa network available to all departments inside the Lisbon City Council, and considering the network capacity the network, the network is also available to citizens to be used freely.

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LoRaWAN and Urban Waste Management – A Trial

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Cota²,

Tremoceiro³

2021

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LoRaWAN and Urban Waste Management—A Trial

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Cota

Tremoceiro

2021

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The city of Lisbon, as any other capital of a European country, has a large number of issues regarding managing waste and recycling containers spread throughout the city. This document presents the results of a study promoted by the Lisbon City Council for trialing LPWAN (Low-Power Wide-Area Network) technology for the waste management vertical under the Lisbon Smart City initiative. Current waste management is done using GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) sensors, and the municipality aims to use LPWAN in order to improve range and reduce costs and provisioning times when changing the communications provider. After an initial study, LoRa (Long Range) and LoRAWAN (LoRa Wide Area Network) as its network counterpart, were selected as the LPWAN technology for trials considering several use cases, exploring multiple distances, types of recycling waste containers, placements (underground or surface) and kinds of commercially available waste level measurement LoRa sensors. The results showed that the underground waste containers proved to be, as expected, the most difficult to operate correctly, where the container itself imposed attenuation levels of 26 dB on the LoRa link budget. The successful results were used to promote the deployment of a city-wide LoRa network, available to all the departments inside the Lisbon City Council. Considering the network capacity, the municipality also decided to make the network freely available to citizens.

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“…Another important aspect that must be considered within a waste management system is the consumption of the battery generated by the use of the devices/sensors available in a solution. The IoT nodes used in solid waste management include ultrasonic sensors and load cell [125], GPS [126], actuators [36], microcontrollers [127], and transmission modules [128]. Some studies describe the use of renewable energy through photovoltaic panels for battery charge and avoid constant manual intervention for replacement.…”

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IoT-Based Solid Waste Management Solutions: A Survey

Pardini

Rodrigues

Kozlov

et al. 2019

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With the increase of population density and the rural exodus to cities, urbanization is assuming extreme proportions and presents a tremendous urban problem related to waste generation. The increase of waste generation has been considered a significant challenge to large urban centers worldwide and represents a critical issue for countries with accelerated population growth in cities. The Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud computing offer an automation possibility through cyberphysical systems that will change the way solid waste management is performed. Considering IoT requirements, a review analysis of waste management models available in the literature is performed in detail in this paper. Then, a deep review is undertaken of the related literature based on IoT infrastructure for efficient handling of waste generated in urban scenarios, focusing on the interaction among concessionaires and waste generators (citizens) from the perspective of a shorter collection time with reduced costs, as well as citizenship promotion. An IoT-based reference model is described, and a comparison analysis of the available solutions is presented, with the goal to highlight the most relevant approaches and identify open research issues on the topic.

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Digital waste management using LoRa network a business case from lab to fab

Cited by 20 publications

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LoRaWAN and Urban Waste Management – A Trial

LoRaWAN and Urban Waste Management – A Trial

LoRaWAN and Urban Waste Management—A Trial

IoT-Based Solid Waste Management Solutions: A Survey

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