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.
