ABSTRACT
The increased population has a great impact on the volume of household waste. The conventional waste management systems can be divided into two main parts. The first part is represented by recycling technologies, including incineration, processing, reusing and shredding. The second part includes the processing related logistics and material handling operations. The collection of household waste is performed in a wide geographical area which means that collection represents a significant part of the whole costs. Waste management systems need up-to-date technical, technological and logistics solutions to increase the efficiency, the reliability and the flexibility. The application of Industry 4.0 technologies offers a good opportunity to transfer conventional waste collection and processing systems into a cyber-physical system. Within the frame of this paper, the authors show the concept of smart waste collection as a cyber-physical system. After a systematic literature review, this paper introduces the concept of smart waste collection including smart bins based on RFID technology in order to support waste volume prediction, cloud and fog computation based decision making in order to optimise the allocation and utilization of technological and logistics resources.
