Ubiquitous waste management system
AssigneeTerra Phoenix Sdn. Bhd.
InventorsChing Seong Tan, Hin Yong Wong, Erfan Hajimohammadhosseinmemar, Tien Sing Au Yong
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Abstract
A waste management system comprising a garbage bin for receiving rubbish and acting as a collection (14) point, an application used to notify a rubbish collector that the rubbish is ready for collection (14), the application being associated with an individual and wirelessly connected to a server, characterized in that identification means are provided to enable the application to track the route of the collected rubbish through one or more stages as the rubbish is transferred from the collection (14) point to a disposal point.
Claims12
A waste management system comprising:
- a collection (14) point at which rubbish is received;
- an application used to notify a rubbish collector that the rubbish is ready for collection (14);
- the application being associated with an individual and wirelessly connected to a server;
- identification means including one or more cameras for generating at least one image of the rubbish and the individual;
- said identification means are provided at a plurality of stages to enable the application to identify the individual to ensure the right individual is credited with points for the rubbish and to track the route of the collected rubbish through said stages as the rubbish is transferred from the collection (14) point to a final disposal point such as landfill;
- characterized in that each image of the rubbish is analyzed to extract features which are linked to form a feature tree of said image represented as a string, said string being tracked through said plurality of stages using similarity matching.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.