Preparing Slide

For this week i made slide presentation in power point .Presentation will be held on on 22 november 2017 .A good slide not contain a many words

Requirement in Project Equipment

Flowchart

A successful project needs to have right steps.I have coming out flow chart that showing the process and steps that I have to  take .The image show a confirm flowchart .

Project Overview

Everyday Malaysia will produce the wastage an average about 30,000 tons. In Clean Malaysia article the generation of municipal solid waste in Malaysia greater more than 91 percent in recent years from 2003 to 2013.Therefore, it is the time to improve the garbage management system in Malaysia. An IoT Garbage Monitoring is proposed to monitor the amount of trash.

The idea on developing this project comes by comparing the conventional waste collection system. In order to tackle the problem, this project gives the efficient way in managing the waste disposal. It is place in the city residential area. The system aims to use by municipal waste collection. Hence it will reduce the operational cost. The revolution project generates and idea to design the garbage monitoring with ultrasonic sensor, microcontroller and the Wifi module for transmitting the data. For the operation it is power up with solar energy.

Review Conventional System

1. Household will dispose their waste in container outside
2. The truck drier will responsible for the collection of residential household waste
3. Garbage is place temporary storage before it move to another side
4. To build green environment and reduce the production fossil fuel power plant the waste is used to generate the renewable energy .
5. Some of waste are transfer to landfill to be dispose while the remaining material is send bck to industry for remanufacturing.

  

Motivation

After the problem was defined a details study of related work done was carried out. During the study of related work, a lot of scope was seen to improve the system in garbage monitor system. There are a lot of project was conduct before to monitor the overflowing of garbage. Hence it can be guideline in completing the project. As a part of garbage management system, the system is developed to monitor the garbage status in real time access. By using this system hygiene and clean environment in cities can be provided. Furthermore, it will avoid spreading different types of diseases. In many aspects the IOT garbage monitoring is very useful for smart cities.

Background Project

Due to high population in Malaysia gives a problem of managing garbage collection is a major problem faced people in Malaysia. This will lead to unhygienic condition. It can be seen around garbage being spilled out from the bins.

 Hence, Garbage Monitoring using IoT is a project that implement to make area of residential clean. This project will show the level status of the garbage and it will monitor the garbage bin. For this project it will use ultrasonic sensor, Wifi module, Node MCU microcontroller and cloud

 Node MCU is the main component that acts as microcontroller. Wifi module also contain in microcontroller. User will monitor the status of level garbage through a cloud. On the interior side of the lid, distance sensor or other called ultrasonic sensor will be placed. Distance between ultrasonic and trash will decrease when trash increase. The microcontroller process the data and through the help of Wifi will send to the cloud. In cloud it will showed a graphical image to worker.

Via IoT waste disposal in bin can be manage more efficiently in addition it provides dynamic routing garbage collection compared to conventional schedule . Moreover, it will give a real-time indicator of the level of the trash. As a conclusion, this project is an alternative way in managing the garbage collection developed based on Node MCU 

Gantt Chart

This week i made a ghant chart for this semester .This ghant chart can be my reference for this semester

Research and finding

This week my focus is to do research about the solar power bank .Solar power bank  will use as power supply to my project  .To make Eco friendly project i decide to use solar .I have go through to lelong website to find the best price .Here i attached the advantage using the solar power bank . Advantage solar power bank   is environmentally friendly charging through solar power bank saves energy ,which is the resource the whole word is working on saving.

How a solar power bank work ? 

A solar power bank will store power and let user charger .A solar power bank works the same way ,just instead of electricity ,it uses the sun .It have solar panel (build in solar panel) to charge itself .

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Finding and research

In my project to measure the level status of the garbage i will use the ultrasonic sensor that interfaced with the micro controller .HC-SR04 is a low cost sensor .It made up four pin triggers echo,VCC and ground.Sensor range provide from 2cm to 400cm .It contain transmitter receiver and control circuit.It has wider input voltage range allow to operate with micro controller on 3.3V . The sensor price in lelong is only rm 3.50 for one unit.I decide to buy this sensor later on .Moreover most of project smart management use this sensor for monitoring process .This sensor uses sonar to measure distance with high accuracy and stable reading .It consists of an ultrasonic transmitter ,receiver and control circuit The transmitter transmit short bursts which get reflected by target and are picked up by the receiver.The time difference between transmission and reception of ultrasonic signal is calculated .

https://www.lelong.com.my/arduino-range-finder-ultrasound-ultrasonic-sensor-hc-sr04-hc-sr-04-robotedu-159253880-2020-01-Sale-P.htm

Research and finding

                                                             Node MCU ESP8266

For the micro controller on my project i make a research with node MCU ESP 8266.It is an IOT platform which is open source. Node MCU uses programming LUA language or Arduino IDE.Moreover it combined feature WiFi access point based on eLua .In this project node MCU will act as an intermediate medium to monitor data.

Research and finding

This week my research continue research about the IoT platform.From the article and video in the internet i found the another one of free cloud account for my project.The development platform is IoT Gecko Gecko is a free IoT system development platform for student ,researches and developer Gecko provide the tools and support to design user IoT based system with ease.

Features IoT Gecko

• Efficient GUI Builder
• Process Sensor Value over IoT
• Operate Motor Over IoT
• 2 way communication 
• Develop enterprise level IoT system
• Online Development Support 
• Easy debugging 
• API support

layout in IoT Gecko for garbage collection 

Research and finding

In this week I'm continue my research about the open source IoT platform.Most of the journal i read they used Things Speak as their IoT platform is an IoT analytics platform service that allow user to aggregate ,visualize and analyze live data stream in the cloud.Things Speak provide instant visualization of data posted by your devices to thingSpeak. Below is the block diagram of system IoT.

ThingSpeak Features

• Easily configure devices to send data to ThingSpeak using popular IoTprotocols
• Visualize sensor data in real time 
• Aggregate data on demand from third party sources
• Use power of  MATLAB to make sense of IoT data
• Run IoT analytics automatically based schedules or events
• Prototype and build IoT system without setting up severs or developing web software

Internet of Things IoT

In my project i will use IoT to monitor my system .The Internet of Things ( IoT) is a system of integrated computing device ,mechanical and digital machines , objects , animals, or people that are provided with unique identifier and the ability to transfer data over a network without requiring human to human or human to computer interaction .Basic understanding about IoT is a the equipment is install with sensor.The sensor is use to provide data.Sensor is the most vital element in IoT.

Internet and its application are increased in this digital generations make the device communicate interact and sharing over wireless media.In my project the bin is connected with the internet to display the information about the dustbin level .Below is the video how it work . 

Research and finding

A successful project needs to have right steps.I have coming out flow chart that showing the process and steps that I have to  take.

Flowchart 

Research and finding

In week 2 research is continue with micro controller Espresso Lite V2.0 .It is an affordable wifi development  board design by Singapore based IOT company .It uses the ESP 8266 chip-set as the main micro controller and support the the arduino environment.All the information about the Espresso Lite http://www.espressolite.com/let-s-get-started can be reach here

The board consists of following distinctive features:

• Espressif's certified ESP -WROOM-02 Wifi Module (which houses the popular 32-bit 80Mhz ESP 8266 SoC with 64kb RAM & 4Mb flash)
• Two user programmable buttons (connected to pin 0 & 13 ) and a reset button 
• Green SMD LED indicator 
• On board 3.3 V  voltage regulator with maximum current of 800mA continuos ,1A peak
• Input voltage Vin:5 -12VDC operating voltage at 3.3VDC
• Support arduino IDE with own board manager and libraries
• Auto program loading from arduino IDE ;no manual resetting required
• Custom-arranged 12 C pads for 12-C compliant sensor or OLED LC display
• Breakout point are breadboard -friendly

From my readers it recommend to use IDE to program and upload to sketches to Espresso Lite.I will install the software later.

Surveying Topics

For the first week i met up with Sir Hafyzan for choosing the topic .The topic that he gave me is a garbage monitor using Internet Of Things.I made a research about the project through the internet.From the internet i found ,this project are uses arduino as a micro controller .Sir Hafyzan asked me research about the Espresso Lite  Version 2 .He is a great supervisor based on his wide knowledge about the  arduino .From the journal i read ,the researchers used arduino mega, arduino uno , AT89C52 as a micro controller .Next is ,there are FYP Briefing in the first week at TTL .FYP implement requirement 

1. Title registration
2. FYP handbook
3. FYP loogbook