SmartLaundry: A Real-Time System for Public Laundry Allocation in Smart Cities

Smart cities facilitate the comprehensive management and operation of urban data generated within a city, establishing the foundation for smart services and addressing diverse urban challenges. A smart system for public laundry management uses artificial intelligence-based solutions to solve the cha...

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Main Authors: Raluca Laura Portase, Ramona Tolas, Rodica Potolea
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2024-03-01
Series:Sensors
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/24/7/2159
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Summary:Smart cities facilitate the comprehensive management and operation of urban data generated within a city, establishing the foundation for smart services and addressing diverse urban challenges. A smart system for public laundry management uses artificial intelligence-based solutions to solve the challenges of the inefficient utilization of public laundries, waiting times, overbooking or underutilization of machines, balancing of loads across machines, and implementation of energy-saving features. We propose SmartLaundry, a real-time system design for public laundry smart recommendations to better manage the loads across connected machines. Our system integrates the current status of the connected devices and data-driven forecasted usage to offer the end user connected via a mobile application a list of recommended machines that could be used. We forecast the daily usage of devices using traditional machine learning techniques and deep learning approaches, and we perform a comparative analysis of the results. As a proof of concept, we create a simulation of the interaction with our system.
ISSN:1424-8220