The Hindu 19.08.2013
East Corporation to monitor garbage vehicles online
Soon the East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) will be able to track the waste disposal system online.
As
a part of the ‘E-Municipality Solid Waste Disposal Monitoring System’
launched this past week, the authorities will be able to monitor
auto-tippers, trucks and loaders which are engaged in solid waste
disposal through GPS device, Radio Frequency Identification Device
(RFID) readers and tags installed in these vehicles. The movement of the
waste disposal vehicles and the other vehicles would be tracked through
the website www.edmctracking.com.
EDMC Mayor Ram
Narayan Dubey said: “GPS device tags/RFID readers have been installed in
vehicles engaged in collection and disposal of solid waste to make the
whole process completely transparent and East Delhi cleaner.”
“The
GPS device will help point out the actual movement of these vehicles
and give more accurate statistics related to solid waste collection and
disposal. It will also be beneficial in making policies in a better way
in future,” he added.
GPS devices will also help know
the movement of these vehicles, time wasted, over-speeding, the area
covered and their parking status.
The Mayor said that
the total cost of this four-year project is Rs.1.92 crore and that it
had been awarded to a private company — M/s A. K. S. Software Limited.
The company has installed VTS devices in 233 auto-tippers, RF tags in 81
secondary vehicles such as trucks, loaders etc and RF tags at 278
dhalaos. After four years, the project will be handed over to the EDMC.
Civic
body Standing Committee Chairman Sanjay Surjan said when trucks and
loaders will reach at the dhalao to collect the waste, the drivers will
scan the RF tags of trucks and loaders on their own using the Personal
Digital Assistant (PDA) device installed in the loaders.
Thereafter,
the loaders will load the waste in trucks and take a picture of the
clean dhalao. “The photograph will immediately be uploaded on the
server. With a blue tooth printer, a photocopy of the slip will be
prepared which will be handed over to the truck driver,” said Mr.
Surjan.