Waste management
The topic of waste management is very interesting for public and private companies, utilities and production companies. The management of urban and industrial waste is a critical activity that brings economic, environmental and social implications.
Managing different collection systems, respecting the constraints given by the territory and making them efficient and sustainable, is the challenge that waste management companies must face.
Waste collection, transport, recycling and disposal are complex and expensive activities, which require organization and control.
In this context, Sigfox 0G technology opens a new era in the Internet of Things (IoT) sector for monitoring any type of container, and allows you to manage all waste management activities in a simple, accurate and innovative way.
EIT Smart, a company of the EI Towers Group, thanks to this unique technology, is able to enable solutions to collect a large variety of up-to-date data from the field.
0G technology is therefore an excellent alternative for waste management, as demonstrated by some important Italian “success stories”, such as the one of Adgenera.
Adambì, the RML level sensor
Adgenera, a very dynamic Italian engineering company, has developed an innovative technology that allows you to obtain all the benefits of “smart” management of urban waste in a simple and concrete way: Adambì.
It is an RML “wireless” level sensor, with battery power supply, that makes waste bins and dumpsters “smart”. The device, compact and discreet, can be installed on bins of various sizes, from 360 to 3200 litres, on bells and on underground containers. It is therefore suitable for monitoring the collection of glass, used clothing, waste oil, street bins… it is suitable for any container.
The RML sensor can be easily installed in a few minutes on any container, even those already in use. The sensor autonomously learns the shape of the bin in which it is installed and, thanks to patented optical technology, calculates the filling level based on the closest object. The system of intelligent bins distributed across the territory is able to count, classify and quantify the waste delivered by each user in a safe and reliable way.
The RML sensor, in fact, allows you to monitor the filling level of all the bins, promptly emptying the full ones and avoiding trips to the empty ones, thus saving time, unnecessary trips and fuel, and at the same time improving the quality of the service: containers always available and clean streets.
It therefore allows you to save time and resources, optimizing and making the collection of any type of waste more efficient.
The advantages of 0G Sigfox technology for waste management
All containers, bins or dumpsters, equipped with an RML sensor, send data relating to the filling level to a single platform, from which it is possible to monitor all collection points.
The RML sensor exploits low power Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWA), which are increasingly a point of reference in the world of IoT, and in particular the EIT Smart 0G low-power transmission network based on Sigfox technology.
Within the Low Power Area Network (LPWA) cluster, Sigfox is characterized by simplicity, resistance, low emissions and low energy consumption, thanks to the features of the Ultra Narrow Band (UNB) protocol. In fact, the protocol allows data to be brought to the cloud, not through the classic mobile telephone networks, but by using a new dedicated network, managed by EIT Smart. The communicating item in Sigfox is not connected to a specific base station, but the transmitted message can be received by any base station located in the range of the device.
With Sigfox data are transmitted even over large communication distances, such streets of a city or a territory to be monitored, guaranteeing high scalability of the network, thanks to the penetration of the signal and the high number of nodes managed.
As Sigfox Operator in Italy, EIT Smart is the only operator able to provide the benefits of this technology, combined with global interoperability between the networks of all Sigfox partners using the same 0G communication standard in over 70 countries in the world.
