TL;DR
- On the truck you need an industrial camera, lighting, an AI computer and a mobile connection. With D4T this is fitted in less than 4 hours on average.
- In your organisation you need a clear goal, someone who follows up the data and agreements on customer data and privacy.
- Without follow-up, it stays at nice dashboards. So plan from day one who does what with the insights.
Having waste recognised during collection sounds like a big IT project. In practice it is not that bad: the technology on the truck is fitted quickly. The work lies mainly in the choices you make beforehand. Use this checklist to prepare.
1. Decide what you want to measure
Start with your question, not with the technology. What you want to know determines which data you follow up and who gets to work with it.
- ☐ Do you want to see non-conformities per customer or per address?
- ☐ Do you want to detect hazardous materials such as gas cylinders and batteries before they end up in the compactor?
- ☐ Do you want to automate and document the visual inspection of commercial residual waste?
- ☐ Do you want to measure the effect of a sorting campaign?
- ☐ Which waste streams do you collect: residual, PMD, paper and cardboard, commercial waste?
2. What goes on the truck
For D4T, the equipment consists of four components. On the product page you will find the technical details.
- ☐ An industrial camera in a dedicated housing, capturing up to 40 images per second.
- ☐ Lighting, so the system also works on rounds that start at night.
- ☐ A rugged AI computer that analyses the images on the truck itself.
- ☐ A connection via 4G, 5G or wifi to send the results.
Schedule the installation. It takes less than 4 hours per truck on average, so a vehicle can be back on the road the same day or the next.
3. Which vehicles and collection systems
- ☐ List the trucks you want to equip, with type and loading system.
- ☐ Note which containers they empty: wheelie bins, bags, large commercial containers. D4T works with all of these systems.
- ☐ Choose whether to start with a few trucks or straight away with a full round or region. The more of your territory you measure, the more complete the picture.
4. Data and integrations
- ☐ Make sure lifts can be linked to a customer or address, for example via your existing collection data.
- ☐ Decide who gets access to the Daisy Portal: planning, customer service, account managers, management.
- ☐ Check whether you want to link the results to your ERP or customer system.
- ☐ Agree which reports you want to receive weekly or monthly.
5. People and agreements
- ☐ Inform your drivers. Explain what the camera does: it analyses waste, not people. Tell them what the audio signal for a hazardous item means.
- ☐ Appoint someone to follow up the insights, for example an account manager for business customers or a communications officer at an inter-municipal authority.
- ☐ Set out how you approach customers about repeated non-conformities. Images make that conversation objective.
- ☐ Check the privacy arrangements with your legal department. In the FAQ you can read how Rematics handles this.
6. After the start
- ☐ After a month, look at the first trends and hotspots.
- ☐ Choose a few customers or neighbourhoods for a first targeted action.
- ☐ After a few months, measure whether sorting quality improves.
Ready to start or still have questions about one of the points? Request a demo and go through the checklist with the Rematics team.