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Luxembourg converts waste collection system
Limburg/Luxembourg, November 2014
As one of the countries that began relatively early to address
the issues of environmental protection, recycling and waste
prevention, Luxembourg has been using new technologies in
the area of waste disposal since the 1990s. In the
municipalities of Esch, Sanem and Mondercange, for
example, bins and vehicles were equipped with identification
technology. The data thereby collected is used by the
respective waste management contractor or municipal
administration to correctly charge the residents.
Following a multi-year trial period, Luxembourg City’s waste
disposal service has been updated by embracing MOBA’s bin
identification system. Ville de Luxemburg/ Service d’hygiène.
Management selected the MAWIS system from MOBA. "We are
very satisfied with the system. During the trial period, it proved to
be very reliable and there are no compatibility issues with our
data management system", reports Jean-Claude Federspiel, IT
director of the municipal waste management provider Ville de
Luxemburg/Service d’hygiène.
23 vehicles were equipped with MOBA RFID technology. In
addition, 31,000 waste bins were retrofitted with transponders.
The MAWIS system is currently undergoing a three month trial
and go into active operation in January. At the start of 2015, the
waste bins of 104,000 residents in nearly 62,000 households will
then be automatically identified during emptying and the data will
be recorded and stored via an on-board computer. The collected
data will be transmitted by means of WiFi to the administrative
centre where it will be fed via an interface into the Q-Soft software
program. After processing the information in Q-Soft, the customer
billing data is transferred to SAP.
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By identifying and linking the individual waste bins to the
respective households and bill-payers, the residents can be
invoiced for the actual weight disposed of.
"What is special about this project is that the city has access to a
WiFi network. And we use this to transmit the data that is
collected during waste disposal journeys", explains Andreas
Schmidt, Director of Waste & Logistics at MOBA. The advantage
for the city is that it saves costs. Because the WiFi network
already exists, no further expense is incurred for data
transmission.
About MOBA
With more than 40 years of experience in the development and
manufacture of measurement and control technology,
identification and weighing systems for construction machines
and waste disposal vehicles, MOBA is a globally recognised
expert in the field of mobile automation. MOBA is one of the
leading system specialists and OEM partners in the industry. With
headquarters in Limburg, branch offices in Dresden,
Langenlonsheim and Merenberg as well as eight subsidiaries and
an international dealer network, MOBA is ever present in all large
growth markets. Company sales have grown from 23 million
euros in 2003 to nearly 50 million euros in 2013 and the number
of employees have increased from 185 to 465.
Luxembourgs waste collection will soon embrace
MOBA’s bin identification technology
The clear display shows the driver all
relevant information, for example address
data
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Working with identification technology, the vehicle
can identify each bin during waste collection
Photos: MOBA
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Phone: +49 6431 9577-287
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