SMART WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM COMMUNITY WASTE BIN MONITORING AND COLLECTION

Author

KEERTHANA K, MITHRALAXMI SARAVANAN, PANDISELVI P, I.A. JANNATHUL FIRTHOUS

Abstract

 Waste bins in residential areas, markets, parks and apartment blocks can overflow when the people responsible for collection do not know which bins need attention. This project presents the Smart Community Waste Management System, a web-based dashboard for monitoring waste bins and requesting their collection. The application uses a Node.js and Express backend, a built-in SQLite database accessed through the node:sqlite module, and a frontend written in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The database stores bins with a name, location, fill level from 0 to 100 percent, and collection status, together with a table of collection requests. The backend exposes REST endpoints for listing bins, reading dashboard statistics, listing alerts for bins that are at least 80 percent full, updating a fill level, requesting a collection, marking a bin as collected, and adding a bin. The dashboard shows five summary cards, bin fill-level indicators, bin alerts, a collection status table, and recycling guidance. Ten functional checks run against a local copy of the project returned the expected responses. The supplied version does not include sensor hardware, user authentication, or a fully dynamic interface, and these are identified as future work. The project demonstrates a small full-stack application for community waste management.

Keywords

Smart Waste Management, Waste Bin Monitoring, Node.js, Express, SQLite, REST API, Dashboard, Waste Collection.

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