How Bitgear Transformed Traditional Waste Collection into Efficient Smart City Solutions

The Background

Founded in 2007, Bitgear has become Serbia's #1 Centre of R&D Potentials, transforming from a startup to a world-class innovation partner. Specializing in electronics, software, and IoT solutions, the company partners with industry leaders like Telekom Serbia and ZTERS to deliver sustainable, intelligent systems for the connected world.

The $2 Billion (USD) smart waste management market faces critical inefficiencies: trucks servicing half-empty containers while others overflow, resulting in excessive costs and environmental impact.

Bitgear's IO-Eye FUSION technology revolutionizes waste management through advanced sensor fusion (fusion of images with ToF laser and mmWave radar) and AI-powered analytics. By providing real-time container monitoring, route optimization, and contamination detection with this technology, Bitgear is transforming traditional waste collection into data-driven, efficient operations for smart cities worldwide.

The Challenge

As Bitgear expanded its smart waste management solutions, the company discovered critical obstacles preventing widespread IoT adoption in the waste management sector.

These challenges threatened to limit the impact of Bitgear’s IO-Eye FUSION technology despite growing demand for sustainable urban solutions.IO-Eye FUSION enables AI-powered insights “beyond fill level”, which were not possible with previous generation of waste management IoT technology.

Dejan Dramićanin, CEO at Bitgear

Technical Complexity and Sensor Reliability

Traditional sensor technologies struggled with accuracy in real-world conditions, failing to properly detect various waste types and suffering from environmental interference.

Market Resistance and High Implementation Costs

Waste management companies viewed IoT solutions as expensive and complex investments. Many operators lacked the technical expertise to manage connected systems.

Scalability and Integration Barriers

Deploying solutions across diverse urban environments required adapting to different container types, waste categories, and existing management systems.

The Solution

Bitgear relies on TagoIO tools to overcome their IoT deployment challenges and accelerate their smart waste management platform development. Besides the hardware, the internal team designed the complete software application on TagoIO.

TagoIO’s full-stack IoT approach provided the infrastructure and tools necessary to transform Bitgear's vision into a scalable, market-ready solution quickly and at a low cost.

Rapid Development and Deployment

TagoIO's platform enabled Bitgear to quickly prototype and deploy their IO-Eye FUSION system without extensive programming.

Scalable Infrastructure and Device Management

IO-Eye FUSION runs in a robust cloud infrastructure that seamlessly handles data from multiple sensors. The platform simplified monitoring across different environments.

Customizable Dashboards and Analytics

Flexible dashboards allowed Bitgear to create tailored interfaces for different stakeholders. Analytics tools provided actionable insights that demonstrated ROI to customers.

The Results

By leveraging TagoIO's comprehensive features and capabilities, Bitgear transformed traditional waste collection operations into data-driven, efficient processes that delivered measurable value to their clients in the waste management industry.

1. Rapid IoT Platform Deployment

Bitgear successfully integrated their sensors to the platform in order to create a complete smart waste management solution, significantly accelerating their product development timeline

2. Real-time Monitoring Capabilities

The company achieved comprehensive real-time visibility for waste container fill levels across multiple locations, enabling instant tracking and data-driven collection decisions.

3. AI-powered Features "Beyond Fill Level"

Rich sensor fusion (camera, laser, radar) enables features which were not possible with previous sensor generation: waste material composition, contamination of recyclables, pickup quality, etc.

4. Scalable Multi-tenant Solution

Bitgear deployed a scalable platform serving multiple waste management companies simultaneously, each with customized dashboards while maintaining data security.

5. Predictive Analytics Implementation

Using historical data collected through TagoIO, Bitgear developed predictive models to forecast fill rates and anticipate collection needs before overflow incidents.

6. Seamless Hardware Integration

The solution achieved smooth integration between different sensors, LPWAN cellular networks, and TagoIO's platform, ensuring reliable end-to-end data transmission.