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Waste Watcher is an IoT based sensor module to help keep track of waste data metrics such as bin fullness, bin weight, images of waste, etc. This is intended to help quantify waste data and promote actionable solutions to lower the amount of waste people throw away.

License: MIT License

C++ 94.20% C 5.80%

sustainability iot zero-waste

waste_watcher's Introduction

Landing page for Zotbins project (https://zotbins.github.io/)

Includes

About us for the student team (ZerO Waste Anteaters or ZOWA)
Links to our blog and social media (YouTube, Instagram, etc)
Who our current team members are
Who our research advisors are
Who our project mentors are
Who our alumni are
Miscellaneous photos from Instagram
Our project partners

How to Update Team Members, Mentors, and Research Advisors

To update the ZotBins members shown in the Team page, go to js/populateAlumni.js, js/populateMentors.js, js/populateResearchAdvistors.js, and js/populateTeamMembers.js
- To add a team member, go to js/populateTeamMembers.js
- If a team member is no longer affiliated with ZotBins, move their data from js/populateTeamMembers.js to js/populateAlumni.js
Inside those files, you will find an array of objects where each object corresponds to one member. The object adheres to a schema specified in the top of the file.

Notes

I recommend running a prettify script to make sure the code is tidy and neat
- In particular, if you are using the Sublime text editor, download and run the HTML-CSS-JS prettify script
- Link here - https://packagecontrol.io/packages/HTML-CSS-JS%20Prettify
- Once it's installed, press "Ctrl+Shift+H" to prettify the HTML files!

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waste_watcher's Issues

Unit tests for sensor module code

When others build this project it would be good to have some unit tests to see if everything on the software side is working while also checking some of the hardware. Having unit tests would be a useful feature and would be a great sanity checker.

Here are a couple possible tests to write (feel free to add more):

ultrasonic sensor reading works
photos can be taken
flash turns on and off appropriately
deep sleep works
network is successfully connected

Include API key in POST Requests

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Handle the add-api-key branch in the zbce_api repo.

Describe the solution you'd like
Whenever, a key is required the waste watcher repo can send post requests using an api key.

Describe alternatives you've considered
Tokens is a possible option.

Additional context
https://github.com/zotbins/zbce_api/tree/add-api-key

Build 10 Waste Watchers Kits

Low Power Sensor Module Demo Version structural enclosure

Need to create a structural enclosure for the sensor module and upload STL file to this repo

Ultrasonic Data Mean of Medians Approach

To ensure reliability of fullness data we want to try implementing this approach.

collect 9 fullness data points
sort the data points
Take the middle 5 values and take the average
Return that average as the fullness data

Changing this script: https://github.com/zotbins/waste_watcher/blob/main/v1/smartbin_sensor_module_v1_demo_version/smartbin_sensor_module_v1_demo_version.ino

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ZBCE Portable Sensor Module v1 Sensor Data Collection Code

v1 will only consist of camera and ultrasonic sensor

Fix v0 Guide

Update broken links and fix mistake with circuit diagram.