Waste Management Automation System

Waste Management Automation System

Waste Management Platform system addressed all these data capturing points and process of collecting the clothes, sorting and dashboard to display monitor and manage data with use of latest technology including mobile platform, cloud server and IIOT.

Waste Management Platform empowers all the users to peak their performance in their respective areas of functionality where they can identify themselves to a user type in this system. It empowers the C2G management to quantify the contributions, monitor sorting and manage the programs running in different schools and Retailers to achieve monthly / quarterly / yearly contribution targets with ease.

Waste Management Platform offers a centralized system hosted on the cloud that captures the data from the sorting process. All master data accessible to the admin user, the school admin users, the retailer admin users and the reports will be available on cloud server. All users of this system will be authenticated and authorized based on their access credentials and roles. The Roles available in the system are Super user, School Admin, Retailer Admin, Collection agent, Sorting Supervisor, Sorting agent.

The Admin configures the Schools, Students in a school, Retailers, Collection Agent, Sorting Supervisors and Sorting Agent and Programs for contribution. The students of the school contribute clothes for a program that the School participates. An Excel sheet with the students details are made available by the School which is uploaded by the Admin thereby the school students information is pushed to the cloud server. The System will generate barcodes for all students in the school that will contribute to track the contributions done by individual student. The collection agent gathers all the bags and measures the total weight of the contribution made by the school. This weight is entered in the system by the Collection Agent on to the cloud server and a barcode sticker is printed for the same that has the details of the school, program and total weight. The contribution is taken to the Sorting Centre.

The Sorting Supervisor is given a barcode reader device, a Tablet device and a wifi enabled digital weigh scale. The Sorting Supervisor maps the Tablet device with the barcode reader and wifi enabled digital weigh scale. The Sorting Supervisor scans the barcode sticker. Based on the barcode, the details of the school, program and total weight are displayed on the tablet. The collection bag is weighed in the wifi enabled digital scale available in the sorting centre and tallied against the data in the system that was entered by the Collection Agent and when the weight is tallied, the Sorting supervisor has the option to start a sorting “Batch”. Once the “Batch” is started, the Sorting Agents can start the sorting process. Each batch has a system generated unique number. Individual Student Contribution bags are given to the Sorting agents.

Tablet device and a wifi enabled digital weigh scale are made available to all sorting agents. The Sorting agent maps the digital weigh scale to the Tablet device as a one-time setup. The agent scans the barcode sticker on the school bag. The details of the student like the student name, class, school and the contribution program are fetched from the internal server and displayed on the sorting agent tablet device. The sorting agent then starts the sorting process. First the bag is weighed in the wifi enabled digital weigh scale. Since the digital weigh scale is mapped to the sorting agent tablet device, the weight measurements are displayed on the agents screen automatically whenever there is a change in weight. The total weight of the student contribution is measured and the same is displayed in the sorting agent’s Tablet and is saved by the agent. The next step in the sorting process is to sort the clothes into different categories.

The clothes are sorted into 14 different categories. The clothes are sorted manually. The agent picks up the clothes belonging to a category, for example “kids tops”, and measures the weight. As soon as the weight change is observed by the digital weigh scale, the weight is displayed on the sorting agent Tablet and the agent saves this weight as “kids tops” category. Likewise, all the contributed clothes from the student is sorted into different categories, weighed and saved by the sorting agent. After all the clothes are sorted, the sorting agent can “Close” the bag and the system sums up the weights in all the categories and tallies with the total bag weight. If the difference in the total weights increases above the tolerance value, the process is restarted again for the sorting agent. The same process is done by many sorting agents and all the data are saved in the internal server. Once all school bags in a “Batch” are measured and tallied, the sorting supervisor can “Close” the “Batch”. During a batch close, the total weight of the sorted clothes is tallied with the total weight during the start of the batch. The difference is displayed and if it is within the tolerance limit of difference, then the batch is closed, else, the Sorting Supervisor restarts the batch process or enters notes on the difference and closes the batch.

Once the batch is closed, the internal server pushes the batch data to the cloud server and syncs up the data. Once the data is available on the cloud server, the School admin can check the statistics of the contribution made by the school such as, total weight of clothes contributed category wise distribution of contributed clothes, student wise contribution, highest contribution done by student and a class. The Collection Agent can see the batch statistics and also see that the batch is closed. The Sorting Agent can see the batch statistics and sorting statistics of a batch.

The Baleing process is to sell sorted clothes to prospective customers with a mix of various categories starting from 1 to 13. Customers call in and ask for a 10Kgs bale or 5 Kgs. For example for a 10Kgs Bale order, the mix starts from 5 clothes per category starting fro mthe first category and all the way up to 11th category. After this, they take 3 pieces for 12th and 13th category to sum it up to 10Kgs in total weight. If the total weight crosses 10Kgs some clothes are taken back from the mix to match the total weight. To automate this Baleing process, the sorting supervisor creates the Customer and enters details like Customer name, contact number and email address. The Customer details are saved in case of New Customers. The Supervisor has a list of Customers. The Supervisor clicks on the “Add Order” icon for the corresponding Customer and ADD ORDER screen is displayed. Here the order Kgs is entered as well as the proposed take away time and saved with a sequential Bale Order Number. Baleing can be done by a Sorting Supervisor as well by a Sorting agent. Both have access to the Bale Orders List. Once the Bale Order List is available, the Sorting agent clicks the Order number and a screen ‘Map My Scale’ appears where the digital scale number is entered and saved.

With the IIOT device in place, all the measured weights are sent to the cloud server that is a scalable and robust to cater to an increasing demand in transaction volume. The weights are measured accurately without data error and the total weights before and after sorting are validated which plays a crucial role in identifying the process mishaps and avoiding such over a period of time.