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@article{201376,
        author = {Onkar Kannawar and Chaitali Shewale and Pavan Panchal and Tanvi Kannawar and Radhesh Nalwade and Chaitanya Lawande},
        title = {BIOCYCLE Rover: An Autonomous IoT-Enabled Decentralized Organic Waste-to-Nutrients Conversion System},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2026},
        volume = {12},
        number = {12},
        pages = {11615-11618},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=201376},
        abstract = {The growing amount of municipal solid waste (MSW), especially organic waste, is a great environmental challenge. In this paper, a new autonomous IoT-enabled system called the BIOCYCLER over will be presented, which is designed to perform a decentralized waste-to-nutrient conversion. The system consists of 4-wheel drive (4WD) ESP32-based mobile platform, 4-degree-of-freedom (DOF) robotic arm to collect waste and a smart bioreactor with multi-parameter sensors such as temperature, humidity, volatile organic compounds (VOC), pH, moisture, and color detection. 
MQTT-based cloud communication and onboard imaging with ESP32-CAM is used to achieve real-time monitoring. Experimental observations show as high as 7485% compost generation efficiency within 7 days, which is far much better than the traditional composting methods.
 The system is a low-cost (less than 150) and scalable solution, which enables automated waste collection, processing, and monitoring to achieve sustainable waste management and the application of a circular economy.},
        keywords = {autonomous rover; IoT; organic waste management; composting; bioreactor; ESP32; circular economy; decentralized waste conversion.},
        month = {May},
        }