Smart collection routing problems: an optimization approach

• Main Author: Tan, Nicklaus Jun Wei
• Other Authors: Huang Shell Ying
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2022
• Subjects: Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computer systems organization::Computer system implementation; Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computing methodologies::Artificial intelligence
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/157894
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Given the recent years of ever-growing emphasis on the search for the next efficient, environmentally friendly, and cost-effective waste collection management system. Along with it came the emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) which allowed the trash bin’s fill-level to be captured and transmitted to the cloud. Hence, a three-phase heuristic data routing model was developed to bring improvements over the traditional blind collection. The final evaluation indicates that: 1) the suitable approaches for different bin fill-level increment scenarios; 2) the improvements in terms of total route distance and total vehicles required; 3) the trade-offs are given a certain approach.