Students invent ‘smart trash collector’
JAIPUR: In order to eliminate the need to search for dustbins at public places, students of the Bhartiya Skill Development University (BSDU) in Jaipur have invented a ‘smart trash collector’.
Mayank, student of f irst semester of BSDU said, “Keeping the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan in mind, we the first year students of department of computing skills, decided to develop a smart trash collector (STC), an automatic dustbin, which would help in keeping the surroundings clean.”
“The smart trash collector is a track following dustbin, which follows a particular track to collect waste and go back. It moves from point A to point B and further following the track sensors.
The smart trash collector also has a motion detector and detects the presence of people and opens up automatically to collect trash from them and moves on to other people after collecting the trash. It also senses hand motions above it and opens up and c ol l e c t s waste,” said Mayank.
Another student, Aman, who is also one of the creators said that the STC has wireless controls and can also be controlled by a handler, wherein if it loses its track or is taken away, it’ll automatically send a message to its handler and can be found following its in-built GPS tracker.
“The STC also sends messages automatically when it is full and needs to be emptied,” he said.
The creators, first semester students at BSDU, Mayank, Amit, Aman, Pukhraj, and Laxminarayan, from the department of Computing Skills, have already created the prototype and are working towards adding more features to the smart trash collector.
The students, working under trainer Ashish Sharma, and principle Dr Anurag, are planning t o add f eatures l i ke a built-in camera, a mechanical hand/holder, and more sensors to the STC.