A Solid Waste Management System Using Smart Bins in a Decentralized Manner in Ethereum Blockchain Network for Incentivization

Abstract

Waste generation in the world is raising in a huge way that the requirement to devise new solutions is crucial. The Solid Waste Management, SWM finds it difficult to handle manually these waste generated day by day, as a result of urbanization. With the advent of the technologies, it is possible to find some really good solutions for the waste segregation, waste collection, tracking, and documenting on the entire process. In this paper, we propose an automated solid waste management system by bringing the IoT and block chain technologies together. Here the data related to the bin is collected and is passed to the blockchain smart contracts that can automate incentives. The system enables waste segregation, which will ease the further procedures in SWM. Smart contract is deployed in the public blockchain Ethereum network platform and the automated reward based on the weight and type of the waste through an API is proposed in this paper.