Inefficient waste management is a big problem!
Waste management services across the UK face a number of challenges caused by increasing population, changing consumption patterns and growing urbanization.
If services are not capable of adapting to changing end user demands then inefficiencies develop resulting in increased costs, additional environmental damage, traffic congestion, unnecessary health and safety risks and poor service satisfaction levels.
What is causing waste management inefficiency?
Poorly timed collections
Waste collections are normally done using static schedules.
This means that collections are made regardless of how much usage the container has had since it was last emptied. This creates inefficiencies in the service.
If a collection is made when the container is not full then operational resources are wasted making the collection. If the container is emptied too late additional resources are needed for extra cleaning and collections.
Both of these scenarios lead to additional costs impacting the service providers and end users.
Inadequate container management
Keeping track of hundreds or thousands of waste containers at different locations is time-consuming and prone to errors. It is also easy to lose containers or have assets stay at operational sites longer than required.
Inaccurate container records can lead to waste management companies purchasing more containers than they need, increasing capital expenditure and maintenance costs.
What is our solution?
Waste Container Sensors - Realtime Usage Analysis
Our organisation uses internet of things enabled sensors and an advanced machine-based learning platform to assess waste container usage; automatically adjusting schedules to optimise waste collections.
Waste Container Tracking - Automatic Asset Management
We supply tracking devices and an advanced usage analysis platform which provides insights into how waste containers are used; identifying ways to increase asset utilisation and reduce the need to purchase new containers.
What are the benefits?
Lower service costs
Our solutions lower costs by ensuring waste management resources are used in a more efficient way.
Our sensor solution reduces operational costs by reducing unnecessary waste collections.
The tracking solution increases the utilisation of existing assets reducing capital expenditure and maintenance costs.
Reduced environmental impact
Our solutions decrease resource usage associated with waste management operations.
By increasing existing asset utilisation our solution reduces the need for new asset purchases, lowering energy consumption and co2 emissions linked to production of the new assets.
Our sensor solution reduces resource usage needed to deliver waste collection services, reducing co2 emissions, noise and road congestion.
Improved customer service
Our devices and cloud based platforms support key performance measurements.
Our tracking solution automatically records container location data and can report on delivery times and durations at customer sites.
The sensor capability can identify when collections have been made and can alert customers if collections have been missed.