SmartBin Technology Available in U.S.

SmartBin, based near Dublin, Ireland, has opened a business development and sales office in New York City to offer its real-time bin monitoring technology.

The company says SmartBin technology “brings a new level of efficiency and performance to waste management technology by fusing innovative wireless telemetry and Web access.”

With SmartBin’s basic remote fill-level monitoring solutions, recycling, document destruction and waste management companies “can comply effortlessly with emerging environmental regulations for recycled materials including: textiles, paper, glass, plastic or aluminum, as well as shredded documents, clinical waste and e-waste,” according to the firm.

SmartBin describes its technology as combining “wireless telemetry and web access technologies, measuring bin fill-level via infrared or ultrasonic technology sensors that determine the distance from the top of the waste to the top of the bin container.” The company says its “extremely reliable and rugged sensors are located discreetly in the top of each bin and employ intelligent processing to eliminate the errors associated with random blocking events.”

SmartBin says its sensors can be tuned “using the appropriate technology for the material being measured. Wet or soft materials [that] are not compatible with ultrasonic technologies [can be outfitted] with infrared measurement.”

The sensors measure a range of parameters, including bin fill level, bin empty events, battery level and other key parameters at set times during 24-hour cycles. That information is then sent via standard cellular networks to SmartBin’s host servers, which analyze the information received from the bins and processes it with application-specific software.

On the Web, SmartBin customers can see all of that information for their operational bins anywhere in the world, at any time, and view it in any number of collated ways from SmartBin’s database, says the company.

The comprehensive view of bins under management allows clients to make informed fleet deployment decisions for collection of the bins.

“The recycling and waste management industry is about to undergo significant changes to keep up with new regulatory control of waste management and SmartBin is here to offer the ultimate cost efficient solution,” says Mark McCarville, founder and CEO of SmartBin.

More information on the company can be found at www.smartbin.com.