Automatic Industrial Garbage Collection and Segregation Robot

Abstract

Because of the economic development of industries, factories produce huge quantities of waste daily, of which some are reusable and some are non-usable. So, waste collection and segregation become relatively important for such industries. However, Bangladesh is far behind other countries in this arena. Since improper management of waste leads to considerable loss of industries, waste management becomes a big challenge for an industry in Bangladesh. The main objective of this project is to automate this waste management process with minimum human involvement to reduce the cost and save time. For this purpose, an automatic robot is built on an IoT platform using appropriate sensors, control units, and servo motors controlled by Arduino Uno. This robot collects the waste even from a nearly unreachable place and also, sorts them into metallic and non-metallic waste. We believe that the proposed robot is capable of meeting the strict requirement of low-cost as well as better performing units made by the local industries and hence, boost the use of waste management service of our country.