Hubballi Dharwad Smart City

During the first week of operations, we have adapted concept of I DO, WE DO and YOU DO for supporting and providing regress handhold training to these field staff. HDMC also suggested an idea of monitoring the process on real time basis using Mobile Apps. We upheld the suggestion and carried out the required changes. This concept worked, demonstrating the data live on mobile app and the this encouraged the Pourkarmikas to do better. It was observed that tag reading while collecting waste has increased gradually.

This concept has made the operation target oriented and HDMC officials has started monitoring the day-to-day operations on real time basis. During initial 4 weeks’ operation it is identified that vehicles were not touching/covering most of the areas but after implementing RFID tag technology we are able to identify those areas on map and the system supported HDMC officials to identify these unattended areas. HDMC officials have taken steps and made their team to attend these left out areas.

• Geo fencing, which was used earlier was only to ensure movement of vehicle in that area however RFID Tagging now helps in identifying the area covered by a vehicle drilled down to each lane and each house assigned to that waste collection vehicle.
• This concept has provided transparent and comprehensive mechanism to monitor & manage the solid waste management process across individual house and complete ward.
• The statistics of waste generated can be viewed along with the population density of the area for decision making of relocation of auto-tipper and Pourakarmikas
• This system also helps in responding to customer grievances of non-collection of garbage as HDMC officials can notifying the same via Citizen Mobile App. At the same time, Citizens will also able to track daily collection status using HDSCL Citizen App.
• In future, the model can also be upgraded by implementing PAY-AS-YOU throw system to financially tie each household to amount of trash it generates and also to encourage recyclables.

This System fully supports the main motive of the project (carryout micro level monitoring of door-to-door waste collection through GIS based analytical tool based on the data combination of vehicle movement and reading of RFID Tags) and helps building a strong bond between citizens and government officials.

• Potential challenges faced were accurately geo-coding all the household locations of the area. Establishment of the intelligent algorithm for flagging the household collected/ not collected.
• GPRS connectivity issue in certain areas
• Choosing the appropriate tag reading technology online/offline in a specific area.
• Resistance was observed during the initial days from field staff in terms of adaptability of the solution and purpose. However, HDMC, HDSCL Officials along with PMC and NEC volunteered to carry out the activity along with the Pourkarmikas to make them familiar with the purpose of the system.