Case Study: Melbourne

By implementing innovative IoT solutions, Melbourne plans to continue dominating the rankings as the world’s most liveable city.

A cosmopolitan city with a population of 4.8 million and 30 million visitors a year, Melbourne’s top priorities include aesthetics and cleanliness. Without any data on waste generation, trash collections involved emptying bins multiple times a day to minimize overflow, an eye sore to residents and tourists. Since deployment of CleanCUBEs in early 2018, the city has been able to dramatically lower its collection frequency, quickly remedy overflow, and maximize efficiency by identifying times, seasons, and areas with high levels of waste. CleanCUBEs have helped the city uphold the highest standard of living for its residents.

January 2019

SOLUTION

conventional waste bins replaced with 397 solar-powered CleanCUBEs in the city’s business district
CleanCityNetworks employed along with CleanCUBEs to provide key data and custom notifications so the city can optimize collections and remedy trouble incidents

RESULT

monthly collection frequency has fallen 96.3% from an estimated average of one collection every 6 hours to an actual average of once every 7 days
data reveals monthly waste volume has fallen by 95.4% compared to previous conservative estimates of volume generation from conventional bins
overflow incidents minimized to an average of 11.5 per month (only 2.38% of all CleanCUBEs see any overflow in a given month)