Many informal e-waste processing hubs exist across the globe; these hubs represent an unregulated e-waste burning economy. This unregulated burning pose significant environmental and health issues. Efforts to address the burning of e-waste are threatened by the lack of information on frequency and location of burn sites. In the West Line Villages, these burn sites change frequently, making them hard to track. The present study proposes a streamlined reporting system for citizens to report burn events coupled with a method to automate burn detection through video recording as well as to record and track burns over time, while utilizing open source smoke detection software.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Baker, Jackson
• Beliveau, Amber M.
• Kendall, Timothy D.
• Lepage, Mary S.
• Thibeault, Erin M.

Subject

• Environment
• Computing
• Project-Based Learning
• Well-Being
• Community

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 6231
• E-project-031921-172855

Keyword

• Electronic waste
• Smoke detection
• Environment
• Computer vision
• Smoke

Advisor

• Bar-On, Isa
• Davis, John-Michael

Year

• 2021

Center

• Israel Project Center (Eilat) - IQP

Sponsor

• Yaakov Garb

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• 3 - Good Health and Well-being

Date created

• 2021-03-19

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2021-05-03