Material classification of recyclable waste using the weight and size of waste

Rahmad, Muhammad Aizat and Midi, Nur Shahida and Zaini, Syasya Azra and Yusoff, Siti Hajar and Mohamad, Sarah Yasmin (2018) Material classification of recyclable waste using the weight and size of waste. In: 7th International Conference on Computer and Communication Engineering, ICCCE 2018, 19th-20th September 2018, Kuala Lumpur.

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Abstract

Nowadays, insufficient landfills problem had increased the needs to decrease the waste and recycling them. However, despite the efforts done by the government and local authorities on promoting recycling culture by introducing new laws and regulations, the awareness and willingness among the community is still low. One of the possible reasons to this is lack of effort to categorize the waste into the designated category which are paper, glass, plastic and metal. In order to address this problem, it is important to design a system that will ease the process of categorizing the waste. This can be achieve by the automation of the said process. In this work, a system consist of an algorithm and hardware to automatically categorize recyclable waste is proposed. The proposed system are utilizing weight sensor and ultrasonic sensors in order to capture the characteristics of the waste item, which are weight and size so that it can be categorized into paper, glass, plastic and metal. Here, an algorithm to compensate minimum usage of hardware, namely the type and number of sensors is presented.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Plenary Papers)
Additional Information:	7394/70632
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Material classification, recyclable waste, ultrasonic sensor, weight sensor
Subjects:	T Technology > TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering T Technology > TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering > TD785 Municipal refuse. Solid waste T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering > TK7800 Electronics. Computer engineering. Computer hardware. Photoelectronic devices
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button):	Kulliyyah of Engineering > Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Kulliyyah of Engineering
Depositing User:	Nur Shahida Midi
Date Deposited:	28 Feb 2019 15:20
Last Modified:	28 Feb 2019 15:22
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/70632

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