08/10/2026
For a waste company, an unlogged bin is a bill that never gets sent.
One regional operator tracked every collection with RFID scanners on its trucks. Misaligned tags and bad weather meant bins were regularly emptied without a record. Some pickups also went unreported in the field, and nobody knew which ones.
We built a computer vision system that runs alongside the RFID setup. Cameras on the trucks count every bin as it's loaded and geotag each pickup.
Comparing the two sources caught the missed pickups and exposed the hotspots where they kept happening. Leadership now plans routes on accurate data and knows where to look when the numbers don't match.
The RFID system stayed. It just stopped being the only source of truth.