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Madrid deploys the largest smart waste monitoring solution ever implemented in a major city. The idea is to optimize their collection and thus reduce nuisances related to waste, such as air pollution, noise or traffic jams.
The Slovak startup Sensoneo, a specialist in intelligent waste management, is about to launch its most important device in Madrid, in collaboration with the local authorities. In all, 11,100 sensors will be gradually installed in bins, whether they are dedicated to light packaging, textiles, glass, organic waste or general waste. They are intended to monitor the evolution of the filling level of each bin.
By spring, data from the first sensors installed will be collected and analyzed by intelligent waste management software to optimize the planning of collection routes. The aim is to reduce the time spent on collection and therefore save on fuel consumption and waste collection costs. In the long term, the decisions taken on the basis of all the data collected should also make it possible to reduce CO2 emissions almost everywhere in the Spanish capital, but also to reduce noise-related nuisances and make traffic flow a little more fluid.
It should be noted that for several years, Sensoneo has already been present in many cities, such as Prague or Buenos Aires. But the project developed with Madrid is much more substantial. If successful, other major cities could adopt this solution.
This optimized management of waste collection is an additional step in Madrid’s desire to become a benchmark smart city. Two years ago, Angel NinoDeputy for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Madrid City Hall, revealed his ambitions: “Tomorrow, the entire organization of a city will have to be seen through the prism of artificial intelligence“.