A Review on the Use of Artificial Intelligence for the Development of a Smart City through Integrated Waste Management system and Circular Economy

Abstract

Smart City development with circular economy requires an integrated waste management system and can be ensured through the use of smart technologies like integrating the city waste management facilities through IoT and artificial intelligence. This is done through use of real time bin monitoring by smart sensors, using artificial intelligence-based route optimization for waste collecting trucks, use artificial intelligence in various aspects of waste management like segregation of wet, dry and hazardous waste at source, composting, recycling, waste to energy facilities and using predictive analytics for optimum resource and infrastructure planning. The objective of smart city with integrated waste management is to use holistic approach in reducing the volume of waste, increase resource recovery, and bring overall improvement in sustainability. Successful case studies from around the World like San Francisco and Los Angeles from USA; Singapore; Msheireb Downtown from Doha, Qatar; Barcelona from Spain and Indore from India were discussed to emphasis on the role of integrated waste management in making cities smart and sustainable. Life cycle assessment must be carried out for every product and services provided, so that the assessment of environmental impacts of the products and services can be done. Circular economy provides solutions for these environmental impacts.