5,000 Mangaluru houses get QR code for waste disposal

Karnataka: The Mangaluru Smart City Limited (MSCL) has recently begun the implementation of its QR code-based Solid Waste Management System (SWMS), which is set to cover all the 60 wards of Mangaluru, in a phased manner. The first-of-its kind system will increase many-fold the efficiency of solid waste management.

The first phase of SWMS will cover 88,000 houses. So far 5,000 houses have been assigned QR codes. The commissioning of QR codes for the rest of the houses is expected to be completed by the end of November.

The smart garbage collection system will help the city corporation track the movement of the garbage vehicles, monitor the status of the garbage collection, provide provisions for the public to record complaints, if any. The door-to-door primary garbage vehicles will scan the QR codes displayed at the gates of the houses, while collecting the garbage. The vehicles will then transfer the garbage to the secondary vehicles and from there it will be sent to the dumping yard. The QR code installed at houses can also be extended for other public services such as payment of electricity bills, property tax, and phone bills, among others.

Mangaluru Smart City will be one of the in Karnataka to go live. Many major IoT and technology-enabled solutions like monitoring city bus transport with Intelligent Transport Management System, disaster management & emergency response, air quality of the city using environmental sensors, city surveillance, variable message system; public address system, geographical information system, and One Touch Mangaluru portal are already deployed and are functioning 24x7. The Integrated Command and Control Centers (ICCC) of Mangaluru Smart City, a major component of the smart city project, is already being used as a war room for the administrators to combat the Covid-19 pandemic.