Incentive-based waste reduction system and method thereof
First Claim
1. A system comprising:
- a reader coupled to a data acquisition unit, the reader reading a tag on a container, the tag identifying a user associated with the container;
a load-determining device communicatively connected to the data acquisition unit, on a collector vehicle, the load-determining device obtaining a quantifiable measure of deposited waste material in the container;
a processor associated with a host server and connected via a network to the data acquisition unit on the collector vehicle, and configured to;
receive, from the data acquisition unit, data corresponding to the obtained quantifiable measure of deposited waste material;
determine using at least one of one or more models a value based at least in part on quantifiable measure received from the user, correlated to a total amount of deposited material in a given past time period, the user'"'"'s successive decrease in the quantifiable measure of deposited waste material, and contingent upon the user wasting less than a threshold value of one of a community-based average and the user'"'"'s own average;
determine a credit for the user based on the determined value, wherein the credit is posted to an account associated with the user;
transform, in response to a request from the user to redeem the credit, the credit into one or more vouchers usable at participating retailers; and
transmit the one or more vouchers to a user device associated with the user.
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Abstract
An incentive-based waste reduction system and method thereof are disclosed herein. In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, an incentive-based waste reduction system comprises a collection means comprising at least a load-determining device, the collection means for obtaining a quantifiable measure of waste material from an entity, a value associated with the quantifiable measure of waste material, an adjustment factor for adjusting the value associated with the quantifiable measure of waste material, determined from an algorithm, the algorithm taking as an input at least a predetermined factor, a credit value associated with at least a quantifiable measure of deposited waste material, and a reward value associated with the credit value.
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14 Claims
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1. A system comprising:
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a reader coupled to a data acquisition unit, the reader reading a tag on a container, the tag identifying a user associated with the container; a load-determining device communicatively connected to the data acquisition unit, on a collector vehicle, the load-determining device obtaining a quantifiable measure of deposited waste material in the container; a processor associated with a host server and connected via a network to the data acquisition unit on the collector vehicle, and configured to; receive, from the data acquisition unit, data corresponding to the obtained quantifiable measure of deposited waste material; determine using at least one of one or more models a value based at least in part on quantifiable measure received from the user, correlated to a total amount of deposited material in a given past time period, the user'"'"'s successive decrease in the quantifiable measure of deposited waste material, and contingent upon the user wasting less than a threshold value of one of a community-based average and the user'"'"'s own average; determine a credit for the user based on the determined value, wherein the credit is posted to an account associated with the user; transform, in response to a request from the user to redeem the credit, the credit into one or more vouchers usable at participating retailers; and transmit the one or more vouchers to a user device associated with the user. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A method comprising steps of:
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providing, on a collector vehicle, a reader coupled to a data acquisition unit and a load-determining device communicatively connected to the data acquisition unit, reading, by the reader, a tag on a container, the tag identifying a user associated with the container; obtaining, by the load-determining device, a quantifiable measure of deposited waste material in the container; on a processor associated with a host server and connected via a network to the data acquisition unit on the collector vehicle; receiving, from the data acquisition unit, data corresponding to the obtained quantifiable measure of deposited waste material; determining, using at least one of one or more models, a value based at least in part on quantifiable measure received from the user, correlated to a total amount of deposited material in a given past time period, the user'"'"'s successive decrease in the quantifiable measure of deposited waste material, and contingent upon the user wasting less than a threshold value of one of a community-based average and the user'"'"'s own average; determining a credit for the user based on the determined value, wherein the credit is posted to an account associated with the user; transforming, in response to a request from the user to redeem the credit, the credit into one or more vouchers usable at participating retailers; and transmitting the one or more vouchers to a user device associated with the user. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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