Service Needs

ServiceNeedRef

N-0066

Title

Monitoring of Illegal Dumping on Smart Lampposts

Business Needs / Challenges

There are public concerns on using cameras as it may touch on personal privacy. Therefore technologies alternative to cameras will be explored which are privacy-friendly to monitoring illegal dumping activities.

Application Areas

City Management

Environment

Expected Outcomes

Illegal Dumping Monitoring

  • Collect information for planning and operation against illegal dumping activities
  • Record and identify illegal waste dumping activities in the street and track street obstructions such as recyclers shops and waste collection vehicles obstacles in selected area of interest
  • Identify dumping type (e.g. by hand, with vehicle, with trolley)
  • Automatically measure the volume and type of waste captured if illegal waste dumping is suspected
  • Recognise the vehicle licence plate number
  • Automatically track and analyse vehicles and the corresponding vehicle type:

Motor Cycle
Private Car
Taxi
Private Light Bus
Public Light Bus
Light Goods Vehicle
Medium / Heavy Goods Vehicle
Non-franchised Bus
Franchised Bus (single decker)
Franchised Bus (double decker)

  • Types of Trash (for reference):

Earth Filling, building debris (packed and not packed in bags)
Household waste
Waste Tyre
Air conditioner
Refrigerator
Washing machine
Television
Computer
Printer
Scanner
Monitor
Bamboo
Cardboard, carton box
Gas Cylinder (Fire Extinguishers, Air conditioner compressor, refrigerants)
Wardrobes, drawers
Bed, mattress, cabinets
Basin, toilet bowl
Wooden frame
Big Trash Bag

  • Alert and Reporting

Trigger an email alert on the event time and venue in Backend instantly if illegal waste dumping is suspected
Trigger alert should have information for user preview and verify the suspected activities
Log the illegal dumping event in the backend system and provide both web and mobile client to access report system

  • Provide a live view at the scene
  • Alternative technologies other than cameras which are privacy-friendly (i.e. no excessive data collection principle under the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance and the practice of collecting minimum information for the purpose of data collection) should be considered only.

Technologies to be Used

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Cloud Computing

Internet of Things (IoT)

Machine Learning