It doesn’t make too much sense to send a sanitation truck around a predetermined route to empty street-side trash bins if half the bins are empty. It’s a waste of employee time and truck fuel for work crews to stop at thousands of bins that don’t need attention. If the bins could speak for themselves and notify the public works department that they were nearly full, then a more efficient pickup schedule could be implemented. That’s where the Internet of Things — or the Internet of Everything — comes into play.
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Internet of Everything Means Trillions for Public Sector
Posted by: John K. Higgins January 22, 2014 05:00 AMIt doesn’t make too much sense to send a sanitation truck around a predetermined route to empty street-side trash bins if half the bins are empty. It’s a waste of employee time and truck fuel for work crews to stop at thousands of bins that don’t need attention. If the bins could speak for themselves and notify the public works department that they were nearly full, then a more efficient pickup schedule could be implemented. That’s where the Internet of Things — or the Internet of Everything — comes into play.