SOLID WASTE BIN MONITORING SYSTEM USING NI

LABVIEW
M.Shiva Kumar1, Kiran Chary2, Ritesh Babu3, Sarah Ruth4
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Assistant Professor, Anurag Group of Institutions, Hyderabad, India.
2,3,4
UG Scholar, Dept of ECE Anurag Group of Institutions, Hyderabad, India

ABSTRACT of significant increase in Municipal Solid

The project is designed to monitor the level Waste (MSW) generation has been recorded
of the solid waste from time to time. If the worldwide. MSW generation, in terms of
level of the solid waste is above the threshold kg/capita/day, has shown a positive correlation
level, a message is sent to any public or with economic development at world scale.
private organization with the help of GSM Due to rapid industrial growth and migration of
model. The IR sensor is placed at the tip of people from villages to cities, the urban
the dustbin to monitor the solid waste. When population is increasing rapidly. Waste
the level of solid waste is above the required generation has been observed to increase
threshold, the GSM code is activated and the annually in proportion to the rise in population
message is sent to collect the solid waste as and urbanization. The per capita generation of
soon as possible. We use the NI myRIO kit MSW has also increased tremendously with
for providing the external connections to the improved life style and social status of the
IR sensor and GSM. NI labView software is populations in urban centers. As more land is
used as a interface for all the hardware needed for the ultimate disposal of these solid
components. In labView software, the code wastes, issues related to disposal have become
of the entire project is designed. By highly challenging.
monitoring the solid waste from time to time,
it can be ensured that the solid waste is II. PROJECT DESCRIPTION
always kept in check thus ensuring a clean For detecting the garbage, Infrared sensor (IR
and safe environment. Solid waste when left sensor) is used. This is a multipurpose sensor
to accumulate over a period of time can lead which can be used for color detection. The
to several infectious diseases. Thus by sensor provides a digital as well as analog
keeping the solid waste under control, we output. An on board LED is used to indicate the
can stay away from the various infectious presence of an object. This digital output can be
diseases and enjoy a clean and safe directly connected to an Arduino, Raspberry Pi
environment. or any other microcontroller to read the sensor
Key words: Infrared Sensors, NI myRIO output.IR sensors are highly susceptible to
1900, GSM module, NI LabVIEW. ambient light and the IR sensor on this sensor is
suitably covered to reduce effect of ambient
I. INTRODUCTION light on the sensor. The on board potentiometer
In our daily life, we see the pictures of should be used to calibrate the sensor. It can
garbage bins being overfull and all the garbage detect the level of garbage. IR sensor emits the
spills out resulting in pollution .This also light, which is invisible to naked eye but the
increases number of diseases as large number electronic components can detect it. Ir sensor
of insects and mosquitoes breed on it. produces both analog and digital volatge. It
consist of IR transmitter and IR receiver.It
Due to population growth, industrialization, produces the output a logic “1” at the digital
urbanization and economic growth, a trend

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output when it senses the object and a logic “0”
when it doesn‟t senses any object. Depending
on the distance between the object and sensor,
sensor produces the analog output voltage
between 0 and 5V.

Figure 2: NI myRIO-1900
The myRIO can be interfaced with GSM
Figure 1: IR sensor module for wireless communication. GSM
modem is a unique type of wireless modem
The output of IR sensor is acquired by The
which is used to enable communication
National Instruments myRIO-1900. It is an
between a microcontroller (or a
input output device which is portable and
microprocessor) and the GSM network. It uses
reconfigurable. The NI myRIO-1900 has a
a SIM card and it operates similar to mobile
ZYNQ chip. This ZYNQ chip is a combination
phone with its own specific mobile number.
of processor (ARM Dual core) and FPGA
GSM modem mainly consists of antenna for
(Xilinx).
wireless communication, SIM holder,
The myRIO-1900 is a tool you can use to communication port, ON or OFF switches and
implement multiple design concepts with one power supply. A GSM modem is connected to
reconfigurable I/O (RIO) device. Featuring I/O the computer via serial or USB cable. The
on both sides of the device in the form of MXP advantage of connecting is it provides mobile
and MSP connectors, it includes 10 analog network to the computer to transfer and
inputs, six analog outputs, 40 digital I/O lines, exchange information with modems. It can be
Wi-Fi, LEDs, a push button, an onboard used for sending sms messages.
accelerometer, a Xilinx FPGA, and a dual core
ARM Cortex-A9 processor. USB acts as a
connector between the NI myRIO-1900 and
host computer. It has connectors A and B that
acts as an expansion port and a connector C that
act as a mini-system port, they carry the signals
and these signals are distinguished by different
connector names. Here the mostly used
connector is mini-system port connector C.
This device can even connect to the wireless
network and create wireless network. It has
inbuilt option to connect to Wi-Fi. This Wi-Fi-
enabled version allows for fast and easy
integration into remote embedded applications.
You can program the myRIO-1900 with
LabVIEW or C.

Figure 3: GSM modem

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III. FLOW CHART display the system status. GUI is developed
The flow chart gives the idea of this project. It using LabVIEW. GUI is displayed on the front
is shown in figure 4. The flow of this project panel of the LabVIEW. It displays the status of
begins with the start. IR sensor is used for the garbage bin that is the level of garbage in
sensing the level of garbage, if it reaches the the bin. Once the garbage bin is completely
threshold level then, a message is sent to the filled, the message is sent to the concerned
respective person to clean the bin as soon as person to clean the garbage. The message is
possible via GSM. If it is not filled the process sent with the help of GSM modem.
repeats as shown in figure 4.

Figure 5: Block Diagram

V. RESULT
The output of IR sensor is a digital output which
is generally either “1” or “0”. This output is
given to the case structure. The case structure
has two cases, a true case and a false case. The
IR sensor is placed at the tip of the dust bin.
When the IR sensor senses the garbage level it
gives logic “1” then it goes to true case and the
SMS will be sent to the concerned authorities. If
Figure 4: Flow Chart
the IR sensor does not senses the garbage level,
IV. BLOCK DIAGRAM it produces a logic “0” so that it goes into the
Block diagram is shown in Figure 5. The first false case. In this case, no SMS will be sent and
block in the transmitter part is the garbage bin. the process repeats until the level of garbage is
The IR sensor which is the level detect is used detected by the IR sensor.
to detect and notice the level of garbage in the
bin. Here to detect the different levels of wastes
in the bin one to two sensors are used. The
garbage level is sensed by IR sensors, the
output of sensor is received by NI myRIO.
When the bin gets filled, NI myRIO sends the
information to the GSM modem. GUI is used to

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Figure 9: Front Panel view

VI. CONCLUSION
Solid waste management is very critical for a
healthy and hygienic environment. By proper
solid waste management, we can ensure a clean
environment devoid of any harmful and
Figure 7:Block Diagram code infectious diseases. When the amount of solid
waste generated is not monitored, it becomes
The SMS consists of AT command, number difficult for proper solid waste removal. By
and the message. Here the display of AT monitoring the solid waste from time to time in
command and the number are not required, but different areas, we can come up with a good
the message is essential. solution for efficient solid waste management.
VII. REFERENCES
[1] S. Singhal and S. Pandey , "Solid waste
management in India: Status and future
directions".
[2] M.Sharholy, K.Ahmad, G.Mahmood
and R.C. Trivedi, "Municipal solid waste
management in Indian cities”
[3] Kreith, F., Tchobanoglous, G.:
Handbook of solid waste management.
Figure 8: Message which is sent to the
McGraw-Hill (2002).
concerned person
[4] Microtronics Technologies, “GSM based
Front Panel of labVIEW shows the serial garbage and waste collection bins overflow
communication standards such as baud rate, indicator”, September 2013.
data bits, parity bits, stop bits, status of code [5] Amol Deshpande and Vikrant Bhor, “Smart
and two strings. Here string1 is used for Garbage Management System”.
entering the mobile number and string2 is used  
for entering the message.

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