Framework of Automated Robotic Dustbin (ARD) for Garbage Collection in Smart Cities with Priority Scheduling Approach

The Government of India launched the Smart City concept in 2015. The Swachha Bharat Abhiyaan is the mission under the same theme. To make these developing cities to be actually smart it is very important that the cities should be clean, and the surrounding should be hygienic. The main part in cleanliness is the garbage collection system that has to be smarter. In addition to this the people need easy accessibility to the garbage disposing points and garbage collection process has to be efficient in terms of time and cost in terms of fuel. In the present situation, the Garbage collection in the Indian cities is mostly manual where all the workers need to go to location where garbage is dropped by the citizens, and they need to collect it with some equipment. This system is not automated till now. The smart cities in India are developing with the fast rate in many respects such as smart homes, connectivity with world by roads, rails and airways, use of information technology etc. However, there is need to improve the garbage collection and disposal in smart cities. The present paper discusses the various issues with existing garbage collection systems and the novel approach to improve the garbage collection using Automated Robotic Dustbin (ARD).