GreenQ

GreenQ, a young innovative company, established in 2015 has a clear goal of bringing efficient technology to the waste management space. Through their strategy to create sustainable and efficient cities, GreenQ strives to enable a better quality of life.  

GreenQ offers technology that can be used with existing waste collection trucks and containers to record waste data and optimize routes and times for your fleet. This has begun making the dream of Smart Cities a reality.

A tracking device installed on garbage trucks weighs incoming waste and predicts the garbage production rate. This data is collected in real time and allows managers to optimize waste collection through smart scheduling and routing. This ensures that places with empty bins are avoided and places that need frequent emptying are visited more often. This data allows truck drivers and managers avoid busy times like school starts and ends to avoid traffic jams. Overall this results in contract optimization and savings costs up to 30% during waste collection trips. 

GreenQ technology can be used with trucks, stationary compactors, grapple trucks, lifting cranes and underground containers to measure the waste picked up or stored in containers. The data collected is analyzed by a data analytics software to provide information in infographics for easy understanding and decision-making by anybody. 

Making garbage trucks smarter: Their platform collects real-time data on the waste pickup process, without any need of manual activation. Hardware is installed solely on the garbage truck and eliminates the need for adding sensors to the bins. They have designed an advanced technology to meet the needs of municipalities, collection vendors and system integrators.

They termed this as the Internet of Garbage (IoG). GreenQ is bringing sensors and big data analytics to residential garbage routes so municipalities can reduce expenses, reduce emissions and provide better services to their citizens.

Some of their listed partners are Motorola, IBM, Deutsche Telekom, Intel and Microsoft.