Every day we hear more and more about the green economy, the circular economy, and cross-cutting topics that relate to the green economy and sustainable development and that are likely to be the new challenge for companies and institutions in the coming years.
The concept is simple as defined by UNEP, namely, “an economy that produces human well-being and social equity while reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcities. In its simplest expression, a green economy can be thought of as a low-carbon, resource-efficient and socially inclusive economy.”
So what used to be simply “waste” now becomes a valuable asset.
Among the various facets of the circular economy, recycling collection is an action that has become part of our daily lives; but many people are still unaware of the direct and indirect benefits and advantages they derive from it.
Dividing one’s waste properly benefits the environment by polluting it less, the community by making the streets cleaner, and the health of the individual citizen.
The positive effects are also economic:
- Cost savings on disposal costs.
- Increased efficiency during harvesting operations.
- Increased use of recycled materials.
With separate waste collection, many municipalities have equipped themselves for “door-to-door” collection management, providing wheeled bins to individual homes, apartment buildings or businesses, and often to prevent unauthorized contributions to the bins, fences are erected, special companies are hired to move the waste bins from inside the yards to outside on collection days, garbage bins are locked with a chain and padlock, etc., all solutions that require high expenses and prevent the ecological operators from smoothly performing the collection.
For this, OMR has already designed and marketed ecological gravity locks that, thanks to an innovative gravity opening system, protect garbage bins (2- and 4-wheeled) and waste bins from being opened and thus from having unauthorized waste placed inside.
Thanks to our technology, the garbage bin opens automatically during emptying by garbage collectors, without the need to use a key to open the lid, while flat keys or passkeys can be used for user input of garbage.
For more details read our article on“Advantages and benefits of recycling collection” and“No more fines, here comes the gravity eco lock.”
The electronic gravity lock
Therefore, the next step in our project was to produce and distribute smart locks that could meet not only the needs of users but also the needs of waste collection centers especially with the inclusion of the punctual tariff.
Thus was born our electronic gravity lock, a modern solution for the world of ecology that finds ideal use in centralized waste collection and further solves the problem of keys.
Locks in the “environmentally friendly” category are designed considering the adverse conditions under which they will be used in public use, and thus keeping in mind their intended use in wet, weather-exposed environments and the high probability of random impacts.
Electronic gravity locks, thanks to RFID technology that uses proximity sensors, allow opening by means of special keys( RFIDTAGs ) that, in addition to having an easily recognizable appearance, a high possibility of customization, and a significantly reduced weight, allow interaction through computer systems and thus open up a wide range of possibilities in the centralization of waste collection.
How does it work?
The user is given a key equipped with an RFID tag that, when brought close to the reader located on the waste bin, allows it to be opened. After making the contribution and closing the lid again, the system will automatically lock the lock, preventing the lid from being opened without the key. This reduces contact with the garbage bin and prevents it from being forgotten open.
Subsequently, garbage collection operators, will be able to perform the emptying operations without having the keys as the opening will be done automatically while emptying on the truck and the locking is activated as soon as the garbage bin is returned to the upright position.
This type of technology opens up new avenues for advanced waste collection management. For example, it is possible to record delivery data (such as user name, street where the waste bin is located, opening time, and anything else that may be useful to the company in charge of collection) and then download this collected data into the device’s memory via an enabled PDA or tablet that will send the data to the centralized server system for later analysis.
The gravity lock can also be integrated with a volumetric detector for automatic calculation of waste quantity and management through the punctual pricing service.
This system of calculating the waste tariff (TA.RI), is no longer based only on the presumptive method and the criterion of square meters of the property, but also on how much waste is produced and differentiated. In practice, with the punctual tariff, the user pays for how much undifferentiated waste he produces; the more he differentiates, the less he spends.
Features of the smart lock:
- Opening by electronic key enabled and registration of contributions.
- Lithium Battery.
- Longlife battery thanks to low consumption technology.
- Downloading data from each garbage bin via Bluetooth system.
- Data Management, customized parameters, data control and collection/transmission through specific IT Platform.
- Low battery warning.
- Warning light opening and locking.
- High opening/closing cycles.
- Mechanism, hook and components made of durable, anti-oxidant material.
- Passport card.
- Reprogrammable keys.
- Choice of operation type (shared, exclusive, utility groups).
- Automatic locking timer.
- Gravity opening.
- Security system for opening from the inside without a key.
Electronic gravity locks are easy to install on all types of two- and four-wheel waste bins and garbage bins; in addition, our company provides installation jigs to facilitate product installation, support for installation either directly or through multimedia materials (data sheets, video guides, tutorials), and after-sales service.
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