Back to results
US 12,110,175 B2Granted
Distributed monitoring system and waste management system and method
AssigneeXorro Pty Ltd
InventorLen Luxford
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A monitoring system comprises a plurality of monitoring stations disposed in or associated with a respective rubbish bin housing or surround. Each monitoring station comprising an identifier, a sensor for monitoring the bin or a detectable quality of the environment in which the bin is located, a processor for receiving a signal from the sensor and a transmitter for transmitting the signal.
Claims12
A detection system for a rubbish receiving bin, the detection system comprising:
- a sensor positioned so as to sense the level of rubbish in the bin and for creating a signal representing the sensed rubbish level in the bin;
- an output for transmitting the level of rubbish in the bin;
- a receiver of the transmitted output;
- a transmitter for sending a signal to a personal device of a rubbish collector, the signal comprising a representation of the level of rubbish;
- wherein the personal device comprises a display configured to present the level of rubbish in the bin as an overlaid image on an image of the bin.
2 more elements
A method of a waste collection comprising
- receiving a signal representing a rubbish level and an identifier of the bin from each bin;
- determining the position of a waste collector and whether a bin that is proximate to the waste collector has reached the predetermined level based on the received level signals and bin identifiers;
- indicating to the waste collector whether the proximate bin is to be emptied based on whether the proximate bin has reached the predetermined level;
- and
- determining whether the waste collector has attended to the collection.
2 more elements
A method of waste collection comprising
- receiving a signal representing a rubbish level and an identifier of the bin from each bin;
- determining which bins have reached a predetermined level of rubbish therein from the received level signals and bin identifiers;
- determining the location of those bins that have reached the predetermined level;
- determining the position of a waste collector and whether a bin that has reached the predetermined level is proximate to the waste collector;
- indicating to the waste collector whether a respective bin determined to the proximate to the waste collector is to be emptied based on whether the proximate bin has reached the predetermined level;
- and
- determining whether the waste collector has attended to the collection.
4 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.