An Ultrasonic Based Garbage Management Dustbin.
As a fast-growing country in the world, Uganda faces a major problem in waste management. As of now, there are traditional waste management systems like periodic and routine clearing by the various civic bodies like the city council authorities, municipal corporation, town council cleaners and other...
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| description | As a fast-growing country in the world, Uganda faces a major problem in waste management. As of now, there are traditional waste management systems like periodic and routine clearing by the various civic bodies like the city council authorities, municipal corporation, town council cleaners and others. But even though this routine maintenance is carried out, we often come across overflowing garbage bins from which the garbage spills onto the streets.T he main problem in the current waste management system in most of the Ugandan cities is the unhealthy status of dustbins. In this research, there has been an upgrade in the trivial and vital components of the urban waste management system, i.e. dustbin. The basic idea behind the project is to implement a smart way of handling garbage, which is done by using the smart ultrasonic protocol to detect the presence of the user. The ultrasonic sensor detects the obstacle in front of the dustbin and calculates the object’s distance from the sensor, which is compared with the threshold distance in the microcontroller circuit of the Arduino UNO. Once this distance is less than the threshold, the microcontroller commands the servo motor to rotate through an angle of 90 degrees thereby opening the dustbin for the user. The Arduino UNO board was powered with an external power supply of 12 V. When an object is in front of the sensor at a distance of less than or equal to 20cm, the smart dustbin opens automatically and it remains open for as long as the object remains in front of the sensor. When an object is beyond 20cm away from the sensor, the smart dustbin remains closed. The quantity of garbage the dustbin can hold depends on the plastic container used. |
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| spelling | oai:idr.kab.ac.ug:20.500.12493-27072025-01-11T00:01:01Z An Ultrasonic Based Garbage Management Dustbin. Matovu, Damazo Ultrasonic Based Garbage Management Dustbin As a fast-growing country in the world, Uganda faces a major problem in waste management. As of now, there are traditional waste management systems like periodic and routine clearing by the various civic bodies like the city council authorities, municipal corporation, town council cleaners and others. But even though this routine maintenance is carried out, we often come across overflowing garbage bins from which the garbage spills onto the streets.T he main problem in the current waste management system in most of the Ugandan cities is the unhealthy status of dustbins. In this research, there has been an upgrade in the trivial and vital components of the urban waste management system, i.e. dustbin. The basic idea behind the project is to implement a smart way of handling garbage, which is done by using the smart ultrasonic protocol to detect the presence of the user. The ultrasonic sensor detects the obstacle in front of the dustbin and calculates the object’s distance from the sensor, which is compared with the threshold distance in the microcontroller circuit of the Arduino UNO. Once this distance is less than the threshold, the microcontroller commands the servo motor to rotate through an angle of 90 degrees thereby opening the dustbin for the user. The Arduino UNO board was powered with an external power supply of 12 V. When an object is in front of the sensor at a distance of less than or equal to 20cm, the smart dustbin opens automatically and it remains open for as long as the object remains in front of the sensor. When an object is beyond 20cm away from the sensor, the smart dustbin remains closed. The quantity of garbage the dustbin can hold depends on the plastic container used. 2025-01-10T07:12:04Z 2025-01-10T07:12:04Z 2024 Thesis Matovu, Damazo (2024). An Ultrasonic Based Garbage Management Dustbin. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12493/2707 en Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ application/pdf Kabale University |
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| title | An Ultrasonic Based Garbage Management Dustbin. |
| title_full | An Ultrasonic Based Garbage Management Dustbin. |
| title_fullStr | An Ultrasonic Based Garbage Management Dustbin. |
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| title_short | An Ultrasonic Based Garbage Management Dustbin. |
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| topic | Ultrasonic Based Garbage Management Dustbin |
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