ghaziabad talking bins promise to take the business of hygiene to the next level pawan kumar a citybased 21yearold engineering student has developed a sensormonitored dustbin that will send repeated text message alerts to its owner each time it needs to be emptiedthe dustbin uses gsm technology to enable transmission of messages to a phone pawan told toi that he has used a microprocessor a 20volt battery along with an infrared sensor to sustain the designthe programming was done through an ic computer chip in which a computer program is transferred into an integrated computer circuit and that chip is attached to a base or a surface pawan said two sensors are attached to the brim of the dustbin which then send repeated sms alerts on the registered mobile number saying the dustbin is full punched into the programmed system after garbage is detected by the sensorsthe alerts will stop only when the dustbin is emptied any information like the place of the dustbin and its location can also be punched into the system which will be connected to a laptop and can be controlled for instructions or changes through the same up to two phone numbers can be punched into the system for alerts at any given time the dustbin was demonstrated at a college science exhibition by pawan who has previously been honoured by the former president of india late dr a p j abdul kalam for creating a tshirt that enables charging a cellphone pawans smart bin however is not a firstofitskind students of iitgandhinagar developed a similar smart dustbin using solar power for their campus in 2015