One of the most interesting use cases we've come across since starting NextBillion.ai has been #WasteCollection. Never imagined something which so many of us have seen in our everyday lives, with waste trucks picking up trash on a periodic basis, could have so much complexity, and be such an #expensive operation! And all the #complexity with different waste types, ability / capacity of different trucks, human pickups vs pickups through an automated arm needing #curbside arrivals. This is a notebook that goes through a bunch of real waste collection constraints, and how to use NextBillion.ai APIs to solve for them. Reach out to us for an API key to try this out!
This is a huge challenge. I was part of a team that was solving for this in 2017. 1200 assets across 6 countries.
Shivam Goyal
1y
Geospatial optimization problems are always interesting, the fact that there is always a scope of improvement as the problem scales makes it even more challenging and fascinating
Building Barikoi Maps
1yWe have been working on something similar