Smart-Bin System using Arduino

I, under supervision of my mentor Dr. Paramvir Singh, was trying to understand IoT System. As a part of our learning we created a small project with Arduino viz. Smart-Bin System.

This is a brief tutorial for creating your own Smart-Bin.

First, Lets see what are the requirements.

Hardware Requirements

1. Arduino Uno

2. HCSR-04 Sensor

3. Arduino Ethernet Shield

4. Jump wires, Lan Cable and Bread Board

Software Requirements

1. Arduino IDE

Now, moving on to the Steps.

1. Test your HCSR-04 Sensor

• Connect your Sensor to Arduino as shown

• Connect Arduino to your Computer and open Arduino IDE.

• Create a sketch with following source code, verify and upload it to arduino

• Now obstruct your Sensor head with an object and check your serial monitor(in Tools tab in the IDE), it will show your sensor reading.

2. Now plug-in and testing your Ethernet Shield.

• Plug-in your Arduino attached with your shield to computer and connect your shield to your computer’s Lan port using Lan cable.

• To figure out what IP address has been assigned to your board, open the DhcpAddressPrinter sketch. This can be found at: File --> Examples --> Ethernet --> DhcpAddressPrinter

• Upload the sketch to your Arduino, and open the serial monitor. It should print out the IP address in use.

3. Create a simple web server to print distance sensor data on browser.

• Open File --> Examples --> Ethernet --> WebServer

• Change IP address to the one from 2nd step.

• Now add the HCSR-04 sensor code from the 1st step and print that distance value to client connecting to Arduino server.

Here is my the full code

• Now enter your IP address in browser.

4. Afterwards, attach the sensor to a dustbin and change the html view according to the requirement.

TA DA! This is our Smart-Bin Project.