Ecodyger: Smart Waste Management

Sustainable food waste management

Ecodyger is an Italian company whose goal is to have food waste transformed into a resource in a sustainable way. They have built a unique machine that enables processing of the food waste directly at the source, receiving a bioproduct that becomes a part of a circular economy.

Challenge

Food waste management is relevant for any place or service that prepares, produces, or distributes food. It involves issues of hygiene, cost of management and pollution. The Ecodyger team created a technological solution that can reduce food waste volume by up to 90% in just a few hours, with working temperature sanitization that kills 100% of germs and bacteria. In this way, food waste turns into organic-mineral fertilizer that can be used in agriculture, gardening, etc. This approach allows reducing CO2 emissions caused by the collection and treatment of organic waste.

In order to optimize maintenance and waste collection, and offer easy data access to its customers, Ecodyger team decided to implement an IoT solution with a private cloud and mobile apps.

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Among their key goals were:

Provide HACCP useful data and remote control for end users within a clear interface
Organize logistics of the recycled waste collection
Collect data from all devices to evaluate the global impact of Ecodyger products on the environment
Create a critical alarm notifications system for safety and service purposes
Enable the possibility of firmware updates by manufacturer, distributor and end-user at any stage
White label client-facing solution with web console and mobile apps

Solution Architecture

Hardware: ESP32
Connectivity: WiFi
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Blynk IoT platform was chosen for the easy-to-use mobile app builder and the opportunity to have some additional functionality custom developed.

Blynk Business plan covered the full suite of IoT software for Ecodyger. The primary use cases include collecting and visualizing real-time data within the branded app, alarm notifications from the machine when the action is required, and OTA updates. A packaged solution Blynk.Edgent allowed configuring OTA firmware updates with no additional development. The solution also includes a smooth and user-friendly WiFi device claiming process out of the box.

As part of the commercial IoT solution Blynk was used to:

Set up a dedicated business cloud server
Set up a multi-tenant IoT system and a branded OEM portal to oversee devices, users, partners, and data
Custom configure company-specific features, including Rule Engine setup to collect certain statistics from all devices and aggregate it in the main one
Set up necessary notifications and alerts
Configure mobile dashboards for device management and data visualization
Publish standalone Ecodyger iOS and Android mobile apps to the app stores.

All of the above was done with the support of a dedicated launch engineer.

Giovanni Ferrari, Executive Director at Ecodyder

Blynk is an excellent platform for businesses that need a robust IoT solution but don’t want to hire and maintain a full software engineering team in-house. We’ve been very pleased with both the product and the support.

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