This project aims design and implementation of IOT enabled solar power robotic trash boat to cleaning the ocean or lake or river. This Garbage Boat is a machine which involves collecting debris (trash) from water surface. Clean water is a basic need for all living beings but water gets polluted due to many reasons like sewage waste, industry waste and garbage waste. The lakes in many villages in India are not used for any day-to-day usage because of garbage stagnant. This is the reason which motivates to design and implement this project. Solar power is used to charge the battery through charging circuit and this battery power is used run this robot. The boat movement along with conveyor belt and head light can be controlling from web browser while seeing the video by using WEB mobile application. This robot consists of ultrasonic sensor to detect and avoid the obstacle while moving on the water surface. Once the trash has been filled the IR sensor will detect it. When IR sensor gives out this information automatically the boat will give the RED LED indication on camera module along with buzzer indication. This system will be more advanced as this would collect down the floating trash with the help of moving belt which consist of teeth to collect the trash on water surface. The main controlling device of the project is Arduino UNO. To achieve this task Arduino loaded program written in C language.

The objectives of the project include:

1. Design an IOT based garbage collecting boat.
2. IR sensor-based trash detecting system.
3. Alerts in the form of Buzzer and RED LED.
4. Ultrasonic sensor-based obstacle detection and avoidance system.
5. To collect the trash using Conveyor belt setup.

The major building blocks of this project are:

1. Solar.
2. Charging circuit.
3. Rechargeable battery.
4. Arduino UNO.
5. ESP32 Camera.
6. DC motors with l293d motor driver.
7. Conveyor belt.
8. Buzzer.
9. Head light.
10. IR sensor.
11. Ultrasonic sensor.

Software’s used:

1. Arduino IDE Studio compiler for Embedded C programming.
2. Express SCH for Circuit design.

Technology used:

1. IOT technology.

     

   

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