How deep is the market adoption of smart cities technology where you live?

I believe quite a few cities have adopted and rolled out smart bins. A prevalent one here is the "bigbelly" brand of smart bins. There are quite a few other companies that do similar.

Three years ago I had the opportunity to present a recycling bin project that gave prizes for recycling through QR codes and that also allowed remote monitoring of the container for the Sensing the World Design Challenge. The project was awarded and I showed it to a person from the company in charge of recycling plastics and bottles in Spain, who found it very interesting. Today there are already machines from that company under the Reciclos brand that give prizes for recycling in QR format.

The project: community.element14.com/.../i-was-there-sensing-citizens-recycling

And the Reciclos machines https://www.reciclos.com/en/

Wow ! That's awesome.  I've heard of they doing something like that here in Portugal, but not directly - I think that it will be mandatory by 2023 that cities manage recycling and archive certain monthly or yearly goals. I do recycle, for many years now, but at my expense. The bags for glass and plastics are all purchased by me. I don't want them to pay me for that (for recycling), but even if they could provide the bags, that would be an incentive.  What I know is that some cities here in Portugal already give discounts on the water invoice (the water is provided by the municipalities and paid to them) or other utilities.

They will have to know who's recycling and who's not.. That could be a way of knowing.

I have a friend that developed a similar technology, but for normal waste bins, that send a LoRa information for when the bin was almost full, then the company could come and empty it.

Thanks for sharing. What a great project.

Wow ! That's awesome.  I've heard of they doing something like that here in Portugal, but not directly - I think that it will be mandatory by 2023 that cities manage recycling and archive certain monthly or yearly goals. I do recycle, for many years now, but at my expense. The bags for glass and plastics are all purchased by me. I don't want them to pay me for that (for recycling), but even if they could provide the bags, that would be an incentive.  What I know is that some cities here in Portugal already give discounts on the water invoice (the water is provided by the municipalities and paid to them) or other utilities.

They will have to know who's recycling and who's not.. That could be a way of knowing.

I have a friend that developed a similar technology, but for normal waste bins, that send a LoRa information for when the bin was almost full, then the company could come and empty it.

Thanks for sharing. What a great project.