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.