According to a new research report from the analyst firm Berg Insight, the number of waste collection points fitted with smart waste sensor technology reached 1.25 million worldwide in 2023 (excluding China).

Growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 22.8 percent, the number will increase to 3.50 million by 2028. These wirelessly connected fill-level sensors can be either pre-integrated into waste bins and containers, for example as a smart bin offering, or retrofitted on existing collection points. Europe accounts for around 45 percent of the installed base with markets such as the Benelux, France, the UK, Spain and the Nordics in the lead. The installed base in the North American market meanwhile reached 470,000 units in 2023. The Rest of World market excluding China will at the same time have the highest growth rate of 26.8 percent and surpass 700,000 installed sensors in 2028.

After acquiring Compology in late 2022, the US-based provider of managed waste and recycling services RoadRunner now holds the world’s largest installed base smart waste sensors and a market share of 16 percent of the total installed base (excluding China). Waste Harmonics (Keter) ranked second and is one example of that waste brokers and managed service providers in North America to a growing extent utilise proprietary smart waste sensors as part of their offerings. The US-based smart bin provider Bigbelly ranked as the third largest player. Meanwhile, the Norwegian smart waste sensor and software specialist REEN was the leading vendor in Europe and the world’s fourth largest in terms of installed base. The top 10 smart waste sensor technology vendors also included Sensoneo from Slovakia; SmartEnds from Belgium; Waste Vision from the Netherlands; BH Technologies from France; Enevo from the US; and Nordsense from Denmark. Together, the top ten vendors accounted for more than 53 percent of the global installed base of waste collection points featuring smart waste sensor technology. The companies in the market oftentimes focus on specific customer segments and geographies, and therefore face varying degrees of competition from each other.

While municipal smart waste management have been growing robustly in the last few years, private companies are also becoming an increasingly important customer segment for vendors offering smart waste management solutions and the segment is poised for significant growth. “We are still in the early stages of waste generators increasing their focus on sustainability and going forward it will be instrumental for organisations to measure, manage and track generated waste and emissions”, said William Ankreus, IoT Analyst at Berg Insight. Cellular communications remain the most popular connectivity technology choice, accounting for over 80 percent of the connected waste collection points in 2023.

Mr. Ankreus concluded:

“Cellular LPWA technologies (NB-IoT and LTE-M) have improved the overall business case for smart waste sensors and represented a large share of shipments in the last couple of years.”

Due to the sunsetting of 2G and 3G networks in several regions, replacements of existing sensors are also expected to affect the shipment volumes to an increasing extent in the coming years.

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BH Technologies’ Redin product encouraging a more thoughtful approach to waste disposal

BH Technologies, a smart public lighting and waste collection management company, has partnered with IoTerop, an IoT device management software company, to offer optimized waste management solutions to its growing list of global clients.

Its Redin product offers access control for waste containers, encouraging a thoughtful approach to waste disposal through individualized monitoring and billing. This product has been equipped with NB-IoT and LTE-M connectivity, capitalizing on open standards to ensure accessibility for smart cities around the world.

Redin Incentivizes Waste Reduction

BH Technologies’ Redin product sits on top of a waste bin and controls the locking and unlocking of the drum. A registered user can open the container’s drum and deposit their waste, while the device tracks the amount of waste contributed by the user. This will enable individualized billing capabilities that depend on the amount of waste contributed, and is designed to provide a strong motivation for thoughtful disposal, enhanced recycling, and increased composting efforts.

Using Cellular IoT to Develop Future-Proof Products

Since its founding in 1998, BH Technologies has been a pioneer in IoT solutions. They established a reputation for their expertise in radio technology, and enhanced this reputation through the adoption of LoRaWAN technology in 2015. Wanting to expand their offer and maintain their leadership position in lighting and waste management solutions in 2022, BH Technologies used IoTerop’s IOWA software development kit to enable their products with NB-IoT and LTE-M capabilities using the LwM2M protocol.

“BH Technologies has a leadership position in France and is looking to strengthen its position in other European countries. NB-IoT and LTE-M connectivity are a key factor to further penetrate these markets. IoTerop’s IOWA client software development kit provided significant cost-savings by allowing us to fast-track our development process without needing to develop this expertise in-house,” says Taïsei Miura, President of BH Technologies.

BH Technologies will release its Redin product equipped with IoTerop’s IOWA software development kit product by Q4 2022, and will use IoTerop’s ALASKA IoT device management platform to manage, secure, and collect important usage data about their devices.

Hatem Oueslati, CEO of IoTerop, says:

“IoTerop is proud to provide an end-to-end IoT solution that enables BH Technologies to put their product on the market faster, providing cities with a powerful tool to encourage thoughtful waste disposal habits. IoTerop partners with companies like BH Technologies to support sustainability efforts and to offer IoT devices that are based on open standards to Smart Cities.”

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Birdz, a subsidiary of Veolia and pioneer in environmental IoT, and Sensoneo, a specialist in Smart Waste solutions for cities and businesses, announced a strategic partnership aimed at accelerating their joint development in the international market of intelligent management and recovery of waste.

A need to optimize waste collection for better management

“The partnership with Sensoneo started from a simple observation. In France as well as globally, the current waste recovery offer only covers very little of the collection part”, explains Christian Carrara, at Birdz. “Waste is collected at predefined times which are in fact not correlated with the actual rate of filling of the dumpsters. Optimizing collection would allow communities to reduce costs, avoid unnecessary travel to improve their environmental performance, and provide better service to their fellow citizens to prevent them from finding themselves in front of dumpsters full.”

To support cities and businesses in this issue, Birdz, already acclaimed by more than 3,300 cities for its environmental IoT solutions, is today forging a partnership with Sensoneo, an international company based in Slovakia that operates in 60 countries, and whose solutions are aimed to make the world a cleaner place by improving waste management. Through several dedicated Smart Waste offers (Asset Management, Waste Monitoring and Collection Planner), Sensoneo succeeds in reducing waste collection routes by 30-63% which directly impacts emissions and fuel and enables customers to monitor actual waste production with 97% off accuracy.

This partnership will allow the two players to combine their expertise to bring an innovative and complete Smart Waste solution to the international market. The offer will initially focus on Voluntary Contribution Points (PAVs – street bins with either public or private access) and will then extend to access control issues, particularly interesting for local authorities setting up incentive pricing systems according to the principle of polluter pays.

Martin Basila, CEO & Co-founder of Sensoneo, says:

“We greatly appreciate the opportunity to partner with Birdz. They have succeeded in becoming leaders in environmental IoT and we believe that the combination of the know-how of our parties has the power to tangibly transform the way cities and businesses operate when it comes to waste. We look forward to the opportunities that our cooperation will bring.”

With a historic presence in the Smart Water market, Birdz has been extending its expertise to all Smart City issues for several years to support its customers in meeting the challenge of digital transformation. With more than 3.4 million connected objects deployed, Birdz collects and analyses 350 million pieces of data every day to identify the biggest ecological problems and provide concrete solutions.

Following the announcement of this partnership, Birdz and Sensoneo aim to launch a joint offer on the market by the first quarter of 2022.

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Ekocharita, a textile waste collection company that annually collects approx. 3000 tonnes of textile waste, has revealed the results of a waste monitoring project using Sensoneo waste monitoring sensors powered by LoRaWAN IoT network.

As of January 2021, Ekocharita began installing Sensoneo smart sensors to monitor the fill-levels of their containers in real-time. By the end of June they had monitored 600 containers, and thanks to data gained from the sensors, they managed to significantly improve the management of their operations as they:

• decreased the time required for the collection of 1 tonne of textile waste by 30 percent,
• reduced the waste collection cost by 20 percent,
• and made the logistics process smoother and better organized.

“We are able to guarantee daily collection of volumes we need for a smooth logistics process – and it takes us fewer hours and less km than before.”

Ekocharita operates within an area of 16000 km2 and manages 1300 containers for clothes, shoes, toys, and home textiles. The containers are usually distributed in busy urban areas. The availability of textile waste containers in close proximity encourages citizens to sort the clothes properly.

What makes containers for textile waste unique, is their very irregular filling cycles. The speed by which the containers become full is absolutely unpredictable, which makes collecting this waste difficult for operations and logistics and puts high financial and time demands on managers. Real-time online monitoring of fill levels can significantly improve operations and reduce costs.

Implementation of waste monitoring sensors

Ekocharita began installing the sensors in January 2021 thanks to the EIC Accelerator grant that Sensoneo received for large-scale deployment of their solution to prove its positive environmental, operational, and financial benefits of smart waste management.

The Sensoneo sensors use ultrasonic technology to monitor fill levels in containers 24 times a day. Along with this data, they also monitor temperature and provide fire and tilt alarms. For the data transfer, the company decided on the LoRaWAN IoT network. With every batch of installation, the positive impact on operations became more and more visible. “We have installed the sensors on our own, following a 2-hours training from Sensoneo, and we were surprised by how easy it was – it takes less than 5 minutes to install and set up the sensor,” explains Juraj Kunak, CEO and Founder of Ekocharita.

The drivers, originally opposed to the implementation of new technologies, became very proactive as they realized the actual positive affect to their workloads. Juraj Kunak: “Even those who said that “I will not use it; I can’t do it with a smartphone” are the first to open a smartphone at six in the morning, make 12 red dots along the way, and at 10:00 they are back with a full car.”

A complete change of operations

With smart waste monitoring on board, Ekocharita has completely redesigned the way they operate. The whole network is digitalized, and the drivers can easily and quickly identify the containers which really require pick-up, and so spend their time much more efficiently: “Right now, the driver wakes up in the morning, opens the app and can see the orange and the red dots – and that is exactly where he should go to quickly collect the full car – because that is the metric based on which the drivers are paid.”

Before the sensors, collection was based merely on the estimations of the drivers: “They were driving for 8-9 hours to collect a full car. They were running in circles and let’s say in 6 months the drivers were completely burnout. Now they can start at 7 or 8 and can be finished by 12:00 or by 1-2:00 PM and they can go back home to their families.”

“We know that 6 full cars are coming to the warehouse every single day.”

The ability to choose only the nearly full containers for collection also allows Ekocharita to ensure they collect the volumes of material they need for easy and smooth warehouse management: “Before having sensors for example, 5 drivers would come full, but one driver would come empty. For one day, you can say it does not matter, but after 30 days you are missing let’s say 15 tons inside the warehouse, and that is the highest loss.”

A huge advantage over competitors

On-time waste collection means to avoid overflowing bins. Potential mess around bins and a dirty environment is a great obstacle for many business partners of Ekocharita: „Having sensors means being reliable for the partner. That is why we are deploying more and more containers which are very near to us in shopping malls, schools, universities, kindergartens… New areas where I have not been before because there was another competitor. Now we are able to replace them.“

“Digitalization not only helped our operations – it also opened a brand new customer segment for us.”

Cost vs Benefit

Ekocharita was able to implement the solution thanks to the EIC Accelerator grant for Sensoneo. This way, the company could test and experience the actual benefits of a large-scale smart waste management deployment immediately. Naturally, the pace would have been different if the company had purchased the solution the standard way. That is why the company has also calculated the Return of Investment if the investment was fully on them. To calculate the ROI, the company used the Sensoneo’s monthly “smart waste as a service” pricing.
“If the purchase of the sensors had been fully on us, we would have recieved the ROI in 7 months,” explains Juraj Kunak, CEO and Founder of Ekocharita.

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According to a new research report from the analyst firm Berg Insight, the number of waste collection points fitted with smart waste sensor technology reached 657,000 worldwide in 2020 (excluding China).

Growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 29.8 percent, the number will increase to 2.4 million by 2025. These wirelessly connected fill-level sensors can be either pre-integrated into waste bins and containers, for example as a smart bin offering, or retrofitted on existing collection points. Europe accounts for more than 50 percent of the installed base with markets such as the Benelux, France, the UK, Spain and the Nordics in the lead.

The installed base in the North American market meanwhile reached 209,000 units in 2020. The Rest of World market excluding China will at the same time have the highest growth rate of 36.5 percent and reach a total of more than half a million installed sensors in 2025.

Having seen some outstanding growth in the private sector in North America, US-based Compology has emerged as the world’s leading smart waste sensor technology vendor, accounting for around 22 percent of the total installed base (excluding China) at the end of 2020. The US-based smart bin provider Bigbelly ranked as the second largest player while the Finnish smart waste sensor and software specialist Enevo was the third largest in terms of installed base.

The top 10 smart waste sensor technology vendors also included Waste Vision from the Netherlands; BH Technologies and the SUEZ subsidiary Sigrenea from France; Sensoneo from Slovakia; TST Sistemas from Spain; Evreka from Turkey; and Ecube Labs from South Korea. Together, the top ten vendors accounted for around 50 percent of the global installed base of waste collection points featuring smart waste sensor technology. The companies in the market oftentimes focus on specific customer segments and therefore face varying degrees of competition from each other.

Along with market growth and the increasing number of market participants, many companies are now evolving their offerings to distinguish themselves from the crowd.

Levi Ostling, smart cities analyst, Berg Insight, said:
“While the early days of the industry focused primarily on the deployment of the fill-level sensor technology itself, it is now clear that the sophistication and breadth of the accompanying software is becoming a key success factor in the smart waste sensor technology market.”

Cellular communications remains the most popular connectivity technology choice, accounting for three quarters of the connected waste collection points in 2020.

Mr. Ostling concluded:

“Cellular LPWA (NB-IoT and LTE-M) is expected to surpass conventional cellular 2G/3G/4G technologies as the leading connectivity type for smart waste sensors in 2023 and hit the milestone of 1 million connected end points during 2025.”

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Berg Insight, the world’s leading IoT market research provider, today released the latest edition of its comprehensive smart city technology report comprising in-depth studies of five key technology areas – smart street lighting, smart parking, smart waste collection, urban air quality monitoring and smart city surveillance.

In 2020, the global installed base of individually controlled smart street lights amounted to 13.0 million units (excluding China). The corresponding figures for the smart parking and smart waste sensor technology markets were at the same time 957,000 and 657,000 units respectively.

Smart parking sensors refers to in-ground or surface-mounted parking occupancy detection sensors while smart waste sensor technology consists of fill-level sensor devices that may either be pre-integrated into bins and containers, for example as a smart bin offering, or retrofitted on existing collection points.

The smart street lighting market has now gained significant traction and its installed base will grow at a robust CAGR of 23.4 percent to reach 37.4 million units in 2025.

The number of installed smart parking sensors is expected to see a slightly slower growth of 21.6 percent (CAGR) while the smart waste sensor technology market will be the fastest growing of the three with a CAGR of 29.8 percent.

A more nascent smart city technology area is the field of non-regulatory urban air quality monitoring, which comprises increasingly small and low-cost air quality monitoring devices that can serve as valuable complements to traditional regulatory monitoring stations. In 2020, the number of such non-regulatory air quality monitoring devices installed in outdoor urban environments amounted to 73,000 units globally and will surpass 300,000 units in 2025.

The largest of the five covered smart city application areas was meanwhile the smart city surveillance market, which reached a global market value of € 9.9 billion in 2020. The market, which includes both fixed and mobile video and audio surveillance solutions, is expected to grow at a CAGR of 19.7 percent throughout the forecast period.

Levi Ostling, smart city analyst, Berg Insight, said:

“Looking just at the sheer volume of various types of smart city device shipments, China has in the past few years outrun most other countries in the world and now plays in a league of its own.”

Outside China, Europe has emerged as the leading smart city technology adopter and North America constitutes the second largest market. An exception is however the North American market for smart city surveillance, which was about 27 percent larger than the European in 2020.

“While publicly funded deployments of smart city technologies in many cases were delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, they were more importantly not cancelled thanks to their growing status as key infrastructure projects,” continued Mr. Ostling when asked about the Covid-19 impact on the overall market.

The pandemic has in many ways highlighted the benefits of remotely managed infrastructure and the need for smart city technologies, which should help the smart city market to recuperate strongly after a short period of slightly reduced growth.

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• Enabling “Just-in-Time” waste collection in production halls

• Automating route scheduling to minimize human tasks and drive efficiency

• Calculating the fastest routes on factory floor plans to collect only reported bins

Sensoneo, provider of enterprise-grade smart waste management solutions, has partnered with Sigfox Germany to introduce an end-to-end solution for monitoring indoor waste bins and optimizing waste collection.

The solution includes Sigfox 0G based sensor button technology to identify full bins and Sensoneo’s smart waste management system to collect all the data and calculate the most optimal routes. The Operator has full remote-control of the waste collection operation. Collection App for drivers navigates according to the factory floor plan and records feedback.

The solution designed for manufacturing accommodates both on-demand and scheduled requests. It accommodates different variables such as vehicle capacity, bin capacity, trash type, bin type and work schedule. The integration into existing IS is available via APIs. Sourcing data to 3rd party platforms is also possible. The solution fits well into lean production concepts. It promotes productivity through increased order; is 5S-compatible and fully in line with Industry 4.0 principles.

“The scope of our comprehensive smart waste management has expanded enormously since we developed the solution in 2014. Thanks to in-house development, we are flexible enough to meet specific requirements of different verticals – Smart Waste Management for Factories and its powerful route planning engine is one of the examples,” explains Martin Basila, Founder and CEO of Sensoneo.

What does the solution include:

1. Sigfox 0G based sensor buttons to notify about „ready to be collected“ status
2. Platform for Operators – digital database of entire waste infrastructure consolidating all available data; Collection app for Operators that provides full control over the set-up and rules
3. Automated Route Planning tool generating the shortest possible and most efficient routes in line with the specific factory’s criteria
4. Collection App for Drivers (To-Do List, Floorplan Navigation & Bin Identification, Feedback & Service Verification)
5. Analytics Dashboard

The Sensoneo platform incorporates even more sophisticated rules. For example: ‘Empty container within 60 minutes of the request’ or ‘The driver can accept a new route upon completing all previous ones.’, ‘Waste types A and B can be collected at the same time, but type C must be collected separately’. These, and many other beneficial features, have convinced manufacturers in the automotive sector to implement the Sensoneo solution.

“We are ready to deploy a project within a short time window. According to our experience, upon careful coordination, the deployment is as fast as 7 working days.”

“A detailed database is created with all containers including waste types, capacities, bin location and the most accessible spot for collection. The platform then consolidates all data on bins, on customer’s infrastructure and accommodates all the rules for route planning. The system’s dashboard gives users quick access to all bins, planned, current and completed routes, as well as service verification and reported fill levels.”

“This gives the Operator full control over the entire waste collection operation and allows him to manage it remotely via tablet or smartphone,” explains Elena Sztochay, Director Solution Sales at Sigfox Germany.

“The cooperation with the project team was extremely professional and the project was executed exactly according to the approved project plan. Our new Factory Waste Management solution brings order and efficiency to our internal waste management. In addition to optimized collection routes, we receive valuable data that we need for strategic decisions regarding our waste management policy,” said the logistics analyst of a leading US manufacturer in the automotive sector, which also operates two production facilities in Germany, confirming the valuable benefits of this 0G solution.

Organizing waste collection around actual fill levels in bins, and not assumptions, results in an estimated costs savings of 30% while maintaining or even improving the quality of service, or to be more precise, a reduction of waste collection-related costs.

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Berg Insight, the world’s leading M2M/IoT market research provider, today released new findings about the market for smart waste management.

The installed base of smart waste sensors reached 379,000 worldwide in 2018. Growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 30.8 percent, this number will increase to 1.5 million in 2023.

These wirelessly connected fill-level sensors can either be pre-integrated into waste bins and containers or retrofitted into existing ones. Europe accounts for more than 50 percent of the installed base. Markets such as the Benelux, France, the UK, Spain and the Nordics have seen particularly positive market developments. The smart waste management market in North America is less developed in comparison to the European market and had an installed base of 85,000 smart waste sensors in 2018. The Rest of World market will have the highest growth of 36.5 percent and reach nearly half a million installed sensors by 2023.

The world’s leading smart waste sensor technology vendor in Q3-2019 was the US-based smart bin provider Bigbelly, which had a global market share of 13.3 percent. Finnish Enevo and Chinese Dingtek Technology shared second place. Enevo is a leading player in Europe and North America while Dingtek has a strong position on its domestic market. Other important smart waste sensor technology vendors include European companies such as BH Technologies, the SUEZ subsidiary SigrenEa, Waste Vision, Sensoneo, SAYME, FarSite Communications, Nordsense, EMZ Environmental Technology; Compology and OnePlus Systems from the US; Evreka from Turkey and Ecube Labs from South Korea.

The top ten vendors accounted for more than 60 percent of the global installed base of smart waste sensors. Many vendors have chosen to focus on specific customer segments such as public litter bins, commercial waste containers or textile recycling banks.

“The interest in smart waste sensor technology has increased significantly over the past 18 months and is now increasingly seen as an integral part of any smart city strategy”, said Levi Ostling, IoT Analyst, Berg Insight.

Cellular 2G/3G/4G technology has prevailed as the dominant connectivity option for smart waste sensor installations, accounting for around three quarters of the global installed base in 2018.

LPWA technologies such as NB-IoT, LTE-M, LoRaWAN and Sigfox are however establishing themselves as attractive alternatives due to their lower power consumption – a feature that is essential for the performance of smart waste sensors as they are mainly battery powered. LPWA communications technologies accounted for around 20 percent of the global installed base of smart waste sensors in 2018. The share is expected to increase to more than 50 percent by 2023.

Mr. Ostling, concluded:

“The transition to LPWA will significantly improve the overall feasibility of smart waste sensor investments and prompt a growing number of large-scale initiatives in the near future.”

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Smart Waste Management company leverages Twilio and T-Mobile Narrowband (NB-IoT) connectivity to optimize waste collection, demonstrating the future of smart cities.

Twilio, the leading cloud communications platform, today announced it is powering its first commercial Narrowband IoT deployment in the United States by Sensoneo, a smart waste management solution provider.

Leveraging ultrasonic, smart waste monitoring sensors, Sensoneo enables cities and businesses to make data-driven decisions and optimize waste collection. Sensoneo’s solution in the United States is enabled by Twilio’s Narrowband IoT SIMs and the first generally available developer platform for NB-IoT in North America. The combination of T-Mobile’s Narrowband Network with Twilio’s service management platform and APIs provides developers a fast, efficient and scalable way to connect a fleet of IoT devices.

“Twilio is here to help developers imagine, build, deploy and manage the world’s largest fleets of cellular IoT devices,” said Evan Cummack, head of Twilio’s IoT business unit.
“Our Narrowband partnership with T-Mobile gives developers the quickest and most scalable way to deploy a fleet of inexpensive, low-power devices with exceptional nationwide coverage. Sensoneo is a great example of the unique opportunity that Narrowband innovators have to disrupt established industries as the smart city vision comes to life.”

Sensoneo Smart Waste Management for Smart Cities

According to the World Bank, the human population creates more than 2 billion tons of municipal solid waste every year. Despite this scale, the process of managing this waste is antiquated, involving overflowing trash bins and dump trucks emitting CO2 as they wait in traffic. Sensoneo’s Smart Waste Management solution includes smart ultrasonic sensors embedded with Twilio NB-IoT SIMs that monitor waste levels, pick up status and real-time temperature of bins. Powered by Twilio’s NB-IoT SIMs, T-Mobile’s NB IoT network, GPS location and BLE technology, this real-time data is instantly sent to Sensoneo software to optimize collection routes, pick up frequencies and vehicle loads.

In North America, Sensoneo uses Twilio’s Narrowband IoT solution that combines SIMs, an API platform, a software development kit, and a management console to connect and manage its smart sensor technology. Sensoneo’s solution is deployed across 35 countries and has reduced waste collection costs by 30% and lowered carbon emissions in active cities by up to 60%.

“Twilio was a clear choice for us,” said Martin Basila, founder and CEO of Sensoneo. “T-Mobile provides us a high-performance network complemented by Twilio’s superior platform and flexible console with very useful features such as the ability to manage SIMs and check sensor behavior. Twilio is an ideal IoT provider for IoT solutions looking for reliable connectivity and quick scaling.”

“With 1.9 billion connections projected by 2025, licensed cellular LPWA (NB-IoT/LTE-M) is set to become the predominant cellular connectivity solution,” said Sylwia Kechiche, principal analyst – IoT, GSMA Intelligence. “Smart city deployments are on the rise and multiple access technologies like Sensoneo will account for almost 1 billion IoT connections by 2025.”

Twilio Narrowband IoT in Partnership with T-Mobile

T-Mobile was the first carrier to deploy NB-IoT in the U.S., which launched nationwide in July 2018. At SIGNAL 2018, Twilio and T-Mobile announced that Twilio had launched the first developer platform for NB-IoT in the US.

The lower throughput and low power NB-IoT cellular network is ideal for massive IoT devices like Sensoneo’s sensors that only need to transmit small packets of data and need to conserve battery power for years. The network’s simplified radio protocol reduces the cost of cellular modem hardware and lowers ongoing connectivity costs. With the power and cost efficiencies generated by NB-IoT, the market is ripe for new categories of lower cost, battery efficient internet-connected devices that don’t currently exist.

Balaji Sridharan, VP, T-Mobile IoT, said:

“Sensoneo is a perfect example of the promise of NB-IoT. It’s not just a network story, it’s a problem-solving story. Waste management is a global issue that requires bold, innovative ideas and approaches.”

“That our NB-IoT network, in partnership with Twilio, is an integral part of bringing a new, fresh approach to tackling such a large problem gives me and the whole T-Mobile IoT team a real jolt of energy.”

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Increasing number of giant cities, municipalities have to tackle complex challenges never seen before, which obviously cannot be managed traditionally. Smart City Solutions are on rise everywhere to support city managers to contemporarily and efficiently solve today and tomorrow’s problems.

Smart waste management is one of many areas where smart cities and businesses can harness technology to modernize infrastructure, improve services, and provide citizens with practical solutions to everyday challenges.

SmartUp Cities is a technology company based in Paris dedicated to using IoT to develop innovative solutions in the area of waste management, environment and sustainable development. Using Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) technologies, SmartUp Cities builds powerful fill-level sensors for containers and smart recycling bins that help cities and businesses reduce waste and increase revenues.

SmartUp Cities CEO Razvan D. Toma, said:

“SmartUp Cities is relying on robust NB-IoT and LTE-M backbone widely available and increasingly are being enhanced by well-known telco operators across the globe. The network offers a ubiquitous IoT connectivity with amazingly cost-effective tariffs, and makes the total cost of ownership suitably low.”

“Quectel BG96 is all-in-one module providing whatever our design team can dream for. We could not wait more than a few days to get a sample and commence design, once become aware of its existence.”

Based on Qualcomm’s MDM9206 modem, BG96 is global multimode LTE Cat M1/NB-IoT/EGPRS module with integrated GNSS. It supports FDD LTE frequency bands of B1/B2/B3/B4/B5/B8/B12/B13/B18/B19/B20/B26/B28, TDD LTE Band 39 (for Cat M1 only) as well as EGPRS 850/900/1800/1900MHz. BG96 offers a maximum data rate of 375Kbps downlink and 375Kbps uplink and is fully compliant with 3GPP R13 of LTE Cat M1 and Cat NB1 specification.

BG96 features ultra-low power consumption and provides pin-to-pin compatibility with Quectel LTE module EG91/EG95, Cat NB1 (NB-IoT) module BC95, UMTS/HSPA(+) module UG95 and GSM/GPRS module M95. It is backward-compatible with existing EDGE and GSM/GPRS networks, ensuring it can connect even in remote areas devoid of LTE coverage. Thanks for proven success stories in different IoT verticals, BG96 is ideal for a wide range of applications such as Smart Metering, Asset Tracking, AVL, Health and Vending Machines.

Besides BG96, Quectel also offers rich options of low-power-wide-area (LPWA) modules compliant with 3GPP R14 specification, which will be showcased during the upcoming European Utility Week during November 6-8 in Vienna.

Emmanuel Maussion, Quectel Regional Sales Director France, Iberia, Benelux, said:
“In line with Quectel’s ambitious plan to make the world a smarter place to live, it’s indeed very encouraging to witness such contribution through a talented company. We would keep moving forward and support SmartUp Cities team to realize their dream in making cities smarter.”

He added: “Simply because in Cellular Based IoT ecosystem only team work would succeed.”

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Telia Company has secured the largest narrowband IoT contract in Norway yet.

The three-year agreement with waste disposal container tracking company StalkIT, covers 100,000 connected devices in Telia’s nationwide narrowband IoT network.

Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) is a new communication technology that enables excellent coverage indoors, outdoors and in the ground. It is ideal for things that run on battery or only send data irregularly. NB-IoT is a cost-efficient way of connecting devices to existing mobile networks.

Telia Company recently inaugurated its nationwide NB-IoT network and has now closed the first commercial contract with waste disposal container tracking company StalkIT. It has developed a service that provides waste management operators with new and detailed knowledge regarding the location and status of their containers. The three-year contract enables StalkIT to connect 100,000 devices to Telia’s NB-IoT network.

“We are proud to have a wide-ranging agreement with an entrepreneurial company with great ambitions,” says Jon Christian Hillestad, Vice President Enterprise at Telia Norway.

“It is very exciting to see our pilot project from this winter going commercial with the potential to expand beyond the Norwegian borders.”

“All our customers need to do now is to mount the tracking device on their containers and switch it on,” says Einar Aaland, Chief Product Officer at StalkIT.

“Our tracking service will provide them with a complete overview of where the containers are and what status they have, and the investment will provide quick returns because processes can be automated and waste can be reduced.”

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Telensa, the world leader in smart street lighting and smart city applications, today announced that it is working with FarSite Communications to integrate its wireless bin monitoring into the Telensa smart city dashboard.

By deploying FarSite wireless netBin sensors, local authorities and their contractor partners can get an instant snapshot of the performance of their waste operations, in order to improve efficiency and quality of service. Telensa is deploying netBin sensors as part of a trial of smart city technologies, that also includes traffic, gully and environmental monitoring.

FarSite’s netBin is a wireless monitoring system for commercial and public bins. It consists of wireless monitors hidden inside each bin to measure fill level, tilt and temperature, connected to a central management system that issues alerts, creates a predictive fill model and optimises collection routing.

Telensa PLANet is a wireless central management system (CMS) that enables centralised remote control of outdoor lighting. It consists of wireless nodes connecting individual lights, a wireless Internet of Things (IoT) network, and a central management application. Data from light pole and street-level sensors can be consolidated in the Telensa data hub, visualised by the Telensa dashboard and made available to other city apps by the Telensa API set. Telensa technology already controls 1.5 million streetlights worldwide, including one in ten of the UK’s lights.

Will Gibson, Chief Commercial Officer and Founder, Telensa, said:

“We are delighted to be working in partnership with FarSite for optimised waste collection, as we build out our smart city solution ecosystem. Expert mass-scale applications that encapsulate deep domain expertise are the foundation for true data-driven smart cities.”

“We are thrilled to be working in partnership with Telensa to bring another key component of an overarching smart city solution,” said Steve Scott, FarSite Sales & Marketing Director. “Telensa’s large international customer base can now benefit from optimised waste collection within a data centric smart city.”

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SmartBin today at IFAT announced its newest intelligent waste monitoring solution, the Metro series – with Internet of Things (IoT) network connectivity and options for ultrasonic and infrared fill-level detection – raising the standard for smart recycling and intelligent IoT remote waste management.

SmartBin’s Metro series has been developed especially for metropolitan uses including a range of Smart City applications for both underground and surface containers, such as general waste and recycling, clothing, waste oil, yellow greases and organic waste.

The Metro series connects to the world’s largest IoT networks based on either LoRa® or SIGFOX® standards. Because connectivity to IoT networks is more cost effective and less power intensive, the Metro series has a battery life of greater than 10 years – and at a reduced cost compared to most other sensors on the market.

“SmartBin’s Metro series is one of the best answers yet for the waste industry,” said Klaus Voss, CEO of OnePlus, which recently acquired SmartBin.
“Cities and customers who use Metro’s intelligent waste monitoring solution can realize a meaningful ROI within days of device deployment.”

The Metro series includes both a new infrared version and an ultrasonic version. The infrared version monitors the top level of a waste bin and can alert owners when the bin needs to be emptied. The ultrasonic sensor periodically measures the fill level of almost any liquid or material in multiple container types. The Metro series advances SmartBin clients’ ability to execute more efficiently, save time and fuel on optimized routes and use valuable labor and fleet resources more efficiently.

The Metro series of sensors is the hardware element of SmartBin’s intelligent waste monitoring solution. Using fill level and other data received from the remote sensors, SmartBin Live creates cost-efficient collection routes, detailed performance reports and a full container portfolio-monitoring function to truly optimize the most complex of collection operations.

“The benefits of IoT and big data are growing exponentially, and the waste industry is no exception,” said Brendan Walsh, CEO of SmartBin.

“The Metro series of sensors offers customers an IoT waste monitoring solution with lower network costs and longer battery life, while giving them a more accurate and efficient way of tracking their waste and recycling collections.”

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Real-time data on bin levels enables city to optimise collection intervals and routes and reduce refuse vehicle emissions and running costs.

NEC Corporation announced today that it is developing a smart waste collection solution for the city of Santander in Spain in partnership with waste management service provider ASCAN. The solution uses sensors that collect real-time data on rubbish and recycling bin levels enabling the cleaning team to optimise collection intervals and routes. The new service is expected to reduce vehicle emissions and running costs by eliminating journeys to bins that are virtually empty and result in fewer incidences of overflowing bins.

The just-in-time waste collection service uses machine-to-machine (M2M) sensors that record the volume of rubbish in the bins, which is relayed via data collectors, repeaters and the mobile network to the control center. The city’s street sweeping team and citizens will also be able to use the “Cuida Santander” app to report problems with illegal dumping.

The refuse collection vehicles are being equipped with onboard GPS tracking and navigation systems. The application software automatically recommends and distributes the most efficient collection routes to the teams and highlights locations that require immediate attention. New environmental sensors on the vehicles will monitor carbon monoxide and nitrogen dioxide emissions from car exhausts, which can cause smog and high ozone levels. This will help to create a more granular and comprehensive environmental map of the city and enable officials to take prompt action to safeguard the health of citizens. NEC is also working with everis – the consulting, IT and outsourcing professional services company – on the project, leveraging their existing agreement to cooperate on smart city solutions.

Iñigo de la Serna, Mayor of Santander, said:

“This project will help ensure the city of Santander has the most efficient waste collection service, while helping to reduce vehicle emissions and running costs.”

“Once again Santander is demonstrating itself as an innovator in the use of smart city technologies to improve the delivery of public services for citizens.”

Santiago Diaz, Vice President of ASCAN, commented:
“We’re proud to be part of this pioneering project to improve waste collection services in Santander and create an even cleaner city for citizens to enjoy. By knowing how full the bins are and the location of our collection teams, we’ll be able to eliminate unnecessary trips to empty bins, reducing costs and resulting in a greener collection service.”

“NEC has unrivalled expertise in integrating smart city M2M sensors with data analysis and visualisation software to create a total solution that contributes to the welfare of communities around the world,” commented Jaime Serrano, president and CEO of NEC Iberica.

“We’re pleased to be helping Santander play a pioneering role in actively managing smart city services to improve the quality of life for citizens, while minimising their impact on the environment and operational costs.”

NEC also offers smart cities its Cloud City Operations Center (CCOC) platform that is used to monitor Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) relating to a wide range of public services, create predictive models and manage work streams. Key data sets from around a city can be cross-referenced and displayed in real-time on large format touch-screen displays in the control room. For example, carbon monoxide, traffic and temperature levels can be continuously monitored and automatic alerts issued via the smart city app and local media outlets when air quality thresholds are exceeded.

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