Advanced Monitoring for Digital Landfill Management

  • Monitoring and Observability
  • Notifications and alerting
Advanced Monitoring Solutions for Scaling a Digital Landfill Management Solution

About the Client

ReSource International is an Icelandic company that specializes in environmental solutions. They have developed elandfill.io, a digital solution for monitoring and managing landfill operations.

Challenge

  1. Need for a scalable solution to monitor and manage the elandfill.io platform.
  2. Requirement for a cloud-agnostic approach to support future growth.
  3. Ensuring the platform could be managed by users with varying technical expertise.
  4. Identifying and addressing issues swiftly to minimize downtime and operational disruptions.
  5. Need for automation in monitoring processes and notifications.

Solution

To address these challenges, we developed the Resource Management Framework (RMF) – a unified system for managing and monitoring digital solutions for landfills.

The RMF was designed with scalability in mind, allowing for future growth without being tied to a single cloud provider. The platform was initially hosted on Hetzner, which posed a limitation for future scalability. We developed a cloud-agnostic solution imposed certain constraints on the DevOps team but ultimately provided greater flexibility.

The platform’s modular structure includes various components, one of which is monitoring. This component consists of a dashboard that shows the status of the system, including applications, their versions, and their last seen status.

elandfill-monitoring

This dashboard displays:

  • List of installed applications
  • Application versions
  • Status of each service
  • Time of last status update (Last seen)

Management Dashboard

This user-friendly interface allows non-technical personnel to monitor production environments. It helps quickly identify issues, such as login failures, by pinpointing whether the problem lies with the UI, backend, database, or performance.

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Each new service is automatically added to the dashboard, enabling the platform to expand as needed.

Notifications

We configured alerts for critical services to notify users of issues such as memory usage exceeding predefined limits. These alerts can trigger scripts to resolve problems automatically.

We configured alerts for critical services to notify users of issues such as memory usage exceeding predefined limits. These alerts can trigger scripts to resolve problems automatically.

Integration with Microsoft Teams provides notifications on deployments, ensuring that all team members are aware of changes and potential impacts.

Integration with Teams provides notifications on deployments, ensuring that all team members are aware of changes and potential impacts. Integration with Teams provides notifications on deployments, ensuring that all team members are aware of changes and potential impacts.

By structuring and representing the collected data, we laid the foundation for the next level of automation. This includes building an alert system that not only notifies but also performs actions based on the alerts, like running scripts to fix issues.

For instance, when a notification about CPU usage spike is received, a corresponding action or script is triggered to resolve the issue.

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Results

  • Created a universal monitoring system that allowed the project to scale internationally.
  • The elandfill.io platform has been successfully implemented in Iceland, France, Sweden, and Turkey.
  • Improved capabilities for predicting methane emissions and optimizing landfill management.
  • Simplified the process of complying with regulatory requirements for methane emissions monitoring and reporting.
  • Ensured flexibility in cloud provider selection thanks to the cloud-agnostic approach.

Predictive Models

By analyzing historical data on methane emissions, waste deposition rates, and environmental factors, the platform develops predictive models to forecast future emissions trends. This enables proactive planning and implementation of measures to reduce methane emissions, such as optimizing landfill cover placement or implementing alternative daily cover practices.

Regulatory Compliance

Landfill operators must meet regulatory requirements for methane emissions monitoring and reporting. eLandfill streamlines compliance efforts by automating data collection, analysis, and reporting processes, ensuring operators remain compliant with regulatory standards and deadlines.

International Expansion

Thanks to our universal RMS and monitoring system, the project has become international, with new sites being installed and Proof of Concept (PoC) trials conducted with several waste management groups worldwide. The solution is designed for landfills globally, addressing common challenges and facilitating digital transformation and leaner management. Current expansions include sites in Iceland, France, Sweden, and Turkey.

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