BUILT IN-HOUSE / SMART WASTE
Smart Bin Fill-Level Sensors
A bin that tells you when it is actually full
The short answer
What does a smart bin sensor do?
It measures how full a bin actually is and reports it wirelessly, so a collection round is built from the bins that need emptying rather than from a fixed rota. Indiott builds the IND-BIN with PSI Technologies, ruggedised for the bins, skips and silos a site actually runs, and quotes it per site.
Bins get emptied to a calendar, not to need. Half the round is collected barely a third full while the rest overflowed days ago, so you burn fuel and crew on wasted trips and still field complaints about the ones that were missed. We engineered the Smart Bin because the off-the-shelf fill sensor either did not fit the bins our clients run or did not survive them.
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The difference
Smart bin sensor: what changes the day it goes live
Bins get emptied to a calendar, not to need. Half the round is collected barely a third full while the rest overflowed days ago, so you burn fuel and crew on wasted trips and still field complaints about the ones that were missed. We engineered the Smart Bin because the off-the-shelf fill sensor either did not fit the bins our clients run or did not survive them.
- Collect on data, not on a rota: rounds are built from the bins that are genuinely full
- Fewer wasted journeys and less fuel, which lands straight in your fleet emissions reporting
- No more overflow complaints, because a bin crossing its threshold is flagged before it spills
- One live map of every bin, skip and silo, with collection history exportable for duty of care
What you get
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Collect on data, not on a rota: rounds are built from the bins that are genuinely full
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Fewer wasted journeys and less fuel, which lands straight in your fleet emissions reporting
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No more overflow complaints, because a bin crossing its threshold is flagged before it spills
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One live map of every bin, skip and silo, with collection history exportable for duty of care
The full stack, applied here
One bin, from fill level to the round it belongs on
Every Indiott build runs all five layers as one accountable system. Follow a single bin at 90% from the sensor that catches it to the report that proves it.
Indiott-engineered ultrasonic fill-level sensing, ruggedised for the bins, skips and silos our clients actually run, reading depth without contact.
Hands a fill reading to CONNECT ↓
Embedded LoRaWAN reports a bin in a car park or a silo across a site through one gateway on multi-year battery, with no cabling and no per-unit SIM.
Hands a signed uplink to SECURE ↓
LoRaWAN device authentication and an encrypted uplink apply as standard, so a bin reporting over a shared network cannot be spoofed and its fill history cannot be quietly forged.
Hands a trusted feed to CONTROL ↓
Fill level is a trigger, not just a reading: a bin crossing its threshold raises the collection flag that builds the round. Where a site needs the bin itself to do more, we engineer that into the build rather than bolt it on.
Hands an action and record to MANAGE ↓
A live fill map with collection thresholds, route exports and a timestamped record for duty of care, or pushed into your routing platform over an API.
The loop is closed ✓
How teams start
From a single pilot to the whole portfolio
You do not boil the ocean. Nearly every rollout runs the same four moves, and you own a working, evidenced result at the end of the first one.
Scope & risk map
We walk the sites, list the assets and pin the one constraint that matters, then agree what a good result looks like before a single sensor is bought.
Pilot on one site
A focused set of sensors goes onto one site or asset group, live on our telemetry and dashboards, wired to the people who need the alert.
Validate & standardise
We tune thresholds, kill false positives, confirm the integration into your SCADA, BMS or CAFM, and write the standard design down so it repeats.
Scale the portfolio
The proven design rolls out across the estate, reusing the same hardware standards and data models so every site reads the same way.
Why Indiott
A specialist stack, not a box-shifter
Brand-agnostic by design
We pick the best of each brand for the layer and the environment, not one vendor catalogue. Milesight, AquaIoT, Atop, Browan, SpecSens and Urban.io, chosen on merit.
The whole stack, one supplier
Sensing, connectivity, OT security, control and the dashboard come from one accountable team, so there is no finger-pointing when something needs to talk to something else.
Specified and supported in Britain
UK-based engineers scope the site, quote the kit and stand behind it, with compliance mapped to the regimes your auditors actually cite.
Honest kit, honest pricing
Prices are shown where we can, quoted fast where we cannot, and you get a straight answer and a bill of materials within one working day.
DEPLOYED IN THE FIELD
Compliance this answers to
| Standard | What it requires |
|---|---|
| Net Zero and fleet emissions | collect-on-data cuts unnecessary lorry journeys, so reduced mileage feeds directly into carbon reporting |
| Duty of care (waste) | timestamped fill and collection history supports waste-transfer record-keeping |
What it costs, roughly
The Smart Bin is engineered to the bins, skips or silos you actually run, so it is specified and quoted per site rather than sold from a price list. Tell us the containers, how many of them and how collections are organised today, and a costed specification comes back within one working day.
Frequently asked questions
How does a bin fill-level sensor measure fullness?
It sits in the lid and measures the distance down to the surface of the waste, then reports that as a percentage. There are no moving parts and nothing for the waste to touch.
How long does the battery last?
Several years on a single battery under a normal reporting interval, because the sensor sleeps between readings and LoRaWAN uses very little power to send one.
Do I need a SIM in every bin?
No. The sensors report over LoRaWAN to one gateway that covers a wide area, so there is no per-bin data contract. That is what makes the running cost of a large fleet viable.
Can it tell the difference between full and blocked?
It reports the fill level it measures. A sudden jump to full that never falls after a scheduled collection is the pattern that flags a problem, and that is a rule you set in the dashboard rather than something the sensor decides.
Is there a monthly subscription?
No. The hardware is bought outright. No UK supplier publishes a price for this category at all, which is why ours is on the page.
Buying this in the UK
- The IND-BIN is built to order by Indiott with PSI Technologies. Contact us for a price.
- Supplied by Indiott, a trading name of PSI Technologies Limited (Companies House 03689664, VAT GB 730 2340 83), Hampshire, United Kingdom.
- Every price is published ex VAT at indiott.com — no quote needed to see it.
- Typically dispatched within 14 working days from the UK, on a VAT invoice.
- Call 023 9223 3611 or request a quote.
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Next step
Scope it with an engineer.
Tell us the site, the assets and the constraint. You get a bill of materials and a straight answer within one working day.
- A bill of materials sized to your site
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