The project developed during the hackathon is a smart bin able to recognize the types of trash being thrown. In particular, the trash bin is able to tell whether what is being thrown is plastic (PET), aluminum, paper or other.
Such trash bins could help the city of Lugano to increase the number of recycled paper aluminum and PET, seen how many recyclable items are still thrown in the regular trash bin.
The USI Hackathon took place from November 15th to November 17th 2019 in USI (Università della Svizzera Italiana).
The group's name is Mrs. B (inspirated by the members first names initials) and the members are Michael Mazourik, Rwiddhi Chakraborty, Shubhayu Das and Brian Pulfer.
The dataset provided was given for the duration of the hackathon and is not publishable by the partecipants. The data was provided by different local societies (Lugano, Switzerland):
- Città di Lugano
- Ail
- Swisscom
- Società di Navigazione del lago di Lugano
- TPL (Trasporti Pubblici Luganesi)
- Publibike
- Ufficio federale di meteorologia e climatologia MeteoSvizzera
- H-Benchmark
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