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Smart mobility and smart energy tend to get the headlines when people talk about Smart Cities – but waste, generated continuously by every resident, is just as fundamental to how a city actually functions day to day.
The Smart City concept rests on several pillars – technological development, sustainable mobility, efficient resource systems – and waste management belongs firmly among them, even if it's less visible than a smart traffic system or an electric bus fleet.
For waste management to function as part of a smart city, it needs the same ingredients as other smart systems – data generated continuously, and AI capable of turning that data into decisions. This applies from collection routing all the way through to sorting and processing.
Machine vision is where this comes together most concretely at the sorting stage – optical sorters equipped with AI-driven vision turn waste sorting from a manual, labour-intensive process into one that generates data and operates with the consistency expected of other smart city infrastructure. As cities invest in becoming "smart" across the board, waste management technology is increasingly part of that investment rather than a separate concern.
Get in touch with our team to discover how PICVISA's optical sorting and robotics solutions can fit your recycling operation.