Design of a Smart IoT-AI Enabled Recycling Machine with Gamification Techniques

Recycling is a crucial process in decreasing pollution and waste materials. Unfortunately, many people find it a time-consuming task and are not incentivized enough to do it, thus the need for a system to simplify the process and make it more enjoyable. The system uses a Convolutional Neural Network to detect and classify the waste material and then a hardware mechanism to segregate the waste. The model utilizes a custom dataset and achieves a precision of 89%. The system is also equipped with a sensor network which connects to the Internet and views the results on an Internet-of-Things platform.