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US 10,096,005 B2Granted
Drone and drone-based system for collecting and managing waste for improved sanitation
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsMichael S. Gordon, Meenal Pore, Komminist Weldemariam
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Abstract
A type of a waste item is identified at a waste collection location using at least a drone-based system. The drone-based system characterizes one or more properties of the waste item. Based on the identified type and the one or more properties, the drone-based system performs a risk assessment based on human health of content of the waste item. One or more actions are taken by one or more drones of the drone-based system based on the risk assessment of the content of the waste item.
Claims18
An apparatus, comprising:
- a drone-based system comprising:
- one or more drones;
- one or more memories and computer readable code;
- one or more processors,
- the one or more processors, in response to execution of the computer readable code, cause the drone-based system to perform at least:
- identifying a type of a waste item at a waste collection location using at least the drone-based system;
- characterizing by the drone-based system one or more properties of the waste item;
- performing a risk assessment based on the characterized one or more properties of the waste item, wherein the risk assessment is assessing a risk level caused by content of the waste item;
- and
- in response to the risk assessment, controlling the one or more drones of the drone-based system to take at least one action to cause biofuel or a bio-fertilizer processing of the waste item based on the identified type and the characterized one or more properties of the waste item to reduce or eliminate the risk level caused by the content of the waste item.
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