Cloud-based system for waste electrical and electronic equipment

Abstract

The growing market of electronic appliances is nowadays introducing a new kind of problem: the disposal management of a great quantity of broken or simply outdated electric and electronic devices. Sometimes the equipment contain dangerous or precious materials, that must be handled carefully. Furthermore, several good and valuable components on broken equipment could be reused. In this work, we present a Web based system conceived and designed to maintain all those information that can improve the end-of-life management of an electronic appliance. The cloud database can be easily accessed using the RFId technology, allowing the traceability of the equipment and the single components in the manufacturing, use, reuse and end-of-life phases.