Real-Time Garbage Vehicle Tracking and Monitoring System

Clients

Techstack

Purpose

Residents rarely know when the garbage truck is coming, so they either miss it or leave waste out for hours, and the local government has little visibility into whether routes are actually being served. This project set out to track a local government unit's collection vehicles live and give residents a heads-up before the truck reaches their street.

Description

We built a system that follows each collection vehicle in real time and shows its position on a live map anyone can open from a phone or computer. A small tracking unit on the truck reports its location over the cellular network, an onboard tag identifies the driver and marks the moment collection begins, and residents can drop notification points along the route to be alerted as the truck approaches. Bringing satellite positioning, cellular telemetry, and a public-facing map together into one working service is exactly the kind of connected-hardware problem we take on end to end.