MUMBAI, India, Sept. 22 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641109739 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Chennai on September 12, 2026, for Waste Bin Monitoring And Alert System.
Inventors include Sakthivel V; Sinchan Nagaraj Shetty; Riddhi Bandhopadhyay; Harshit Kumar Singh; and Prakash P.
The application for the patent was published on September 18, 2026, under issue no. 38/2026.
Abstract: A waste bin monitoring and alert system (102) includes a control unit (104) having a processor (302) and a memory (304). The control unit (104) receives sensor data from a sensor unit (106) detecting rainfall, lid position, and waste fill level. A rain-detected lid-open condition is determined upon concurre...