An edge-based smart mobile service system for illegal dumping detection and monitoring in San Jose

Abstract

Many current smart city innovations focused on major subjects, such as smart transport, city and community connectivity, public healthcare, climate change, environmental sustainability, water and waste management, and so on. The primary objective is to improve the quality of life in the cities based on the advanced networks, the information technologies, the big data solutions, and the IoT solutions. This paper focuses on illegal dumping problems in the City of San Jose. It proposes an innovative smart mobile-based service system that supports real-time illegal dumping detection, altering, monitoring, and management. The paper presents the system architecture, functional components, mobile communication and services, and the illegal dumping object detection techniques. In addition, the project implementation details and earlier results are presented.