EcoWaste
A digital ecosystem for municipal waste collection management: web platform for municipalities and operational managers, mobile app for field operators, citizen app, smart containers, MIFARE 443 RFID cards, vehicles, collection trips, reports, pickup calendars and data for pay-as-you-throw models.
EcoWaste connects municipalities, citizens, operators, vehicles and smart containers into one digital ecosystem to make waste collection more plannable, traceable and ready for pay-as-you-throw models.
EcoWaste was born out of direct observation of a sector in which municipalities, waste management companies and citizens still operate on disconnected tracks: taxpayer records handled on spreadsheets, collection calendars communicated through paper flyers, operational controls left to the memory of field operators, citizen reports lost between phone calls and front desks. Filcronet designed EcoWaste to bring all these actors into a single digital ecosystem, built around a clear idea: waste collection becomes truly governable only when every step - from identifying the taxpayer to emptying the container - leaves a clear, shared and queryable trace. The platform centralizes taxpayer records, private and commercial users, MIFARE 443 RFID cards, smart containers, vehicles, operators, collection trips and citizen-facing digital services, laying the foundation for a genuinely data-driven approach to municipal waste management.
Planned collections, connected citizens, data ready for pay-as-you-throw models
Through the web platform, municipal users can manage taxpayers, separate private and commercial users and assign RFID cards enabled to open the containers, gradually building a reliable and constantly updated registry. Operational managers can register vehicles and containers, plan collection trips by waste type and assign operators and vehicles, reducing the inefficiencies typical of verbal, paper-based planning. The mobile app for operators guides collection from one container to the next with routes optimized according to the selected vehicle, while the citizen app allows residents to view the waste collection calendar, send reports to the municipality and book bulky waste pickup, giving citizens an active role in the service. Integration with the electronics installed on the containers makes it possible to collect position, temperature, status and card-based opening events, creating the data foundation for operational control, prevention of dumping and malfunctions, and pay-as-you-throw TARI models. The outcome is a collection service that is more transparent for citizens, more plannable for municipalities and fairer in how costs are distributed.