Evidence

Measured results

Q: Are these your customers?

No, and we would rather say so plainly. These are published deployments by European public bodies of BrainyBins®, the sensor and software platform made by Maacks ApS of Denmark, which Britannia IoT Solutions supplies in the UK. Naming them is the point: it means you can go and check every figure on this page against the operating authority and the manufacturer, rather than taking our word for it. We present them as evidence that the technology works in daily municipal service, with attributable numbers behind it, because that is a more useful thing for a prospective customer to assess than an unverifiable claim. Britannia IoT Solutions is a young company and our own UK deployments are at an early stage.

Q: Why are all the examples European rather than British?

Because Denmark and Germany adopted this technology at municipal scale several years before the UK did, so that is where the multi-year operating evidence exists. The underlying situation is not materially different: a district council emptying street bins twice a week to a fixed timetable faces the same problem as Stralsund did, and a coastal authority with a summer population spike faces Fanø's problem almost exactly.

Q: Would we get the same results?

Possibly better, possibly worse, and nobody can tell you which before measuring. The gains depend on how over-serviced your current rounds are and how much driving sits between your stops. An authority emptying rural bring sites on a fixed fortnightly cycle has a great deal of slack to recover; a dense urban round where every bin genuinely fills daily has very little. That is exactly what a 90-day pilot against your own baseline establishes, at small cost, before any significant commitment.

Four public bodies, four different waste problems, and published numbers behind each one.

Four public bodies, four different waste collection problems, four sets of published numbers. Stralsund cut street-bin collections by 71% and mileage by 54%. Vejle moved from twice-weekly to fortnightly collection across 547 instrumented bins. Fanø reduced emptyings by 20% within two months. Langeland removed a collection vehicle from service and eliminated a 176 km manual inspection round.

All four are live deployments of the sensor and software platform Britannia IoT Solutions supplies in the UK — a platform now running more than 9,750 sensors in service across 26 municipalities and 11 utility companies. They are in Denmark and Germany, and we present them as the technology's track record — not as our own client list.

71%fewer weekly collections — 1,548 down to 445Stralsund, Germany

54%fewer weekly kilometres — 1,677 down to 779Stralsund, Germany

30%reduction in working hours on the taskStralsund, Germany

20%fewer emptyings within two monthsFanø, Denmark

2.0→1.5full-time staff on bin emptyingVejle, Denmark

1collection vehicle removed from the fleetLangeland, Denmark

1 / 220sensor faults in the first four monthsLangeland, Denmark

<12months for the pilot to pay for itselfStralsund, Germany

Case studies

Read the waste collection case studies in full

Stralsund, Germany

71% fewer collections

Town-centre street bins

A city of 55,000 collecting 180 tonnes a year from public bins fitted radar sensors to 35 town-centre 60-litre bins. Collections fell from twice a week to only when needed. The pilot paid back inside a year and was extended by 100 more sensors.

Read the Stralsund case study Vejle, Denmark

Twice weekly → fortnightly

Municipality-wide rollout

547 of 875 public bins along 2,000 km of roads, with an optimised round calculated automatically at 05:00 daily. A funded pilot on one trial route led to a council decision to roll out across the municipality.

Read the Vejle case study Fanø, Denmark

20% fewer emptyings

Seasonal recycling sites

An island whose population runs between 3,000 and 50,000 across the year, with 82 semi-buried containers across 14 sites. Emptying had been done, in the authority's own words, by gut feeling.

Read the Fanø case study Langeland, Denmark

One vehicle removed

Rural bring-site network

220 sensors across roughly 30 collection points serving 2,300 holiday households, replacing a 176 km manual inspection round that took a day and a half and produced a paper report.

Read the Langeland case study

Comparison

The four deployments side by side

Comparison of four published fill-level sensor deployments
Deployment	Setting	Scale	Headline outcome
Stralsund	Historic town centre, 55,000 residents	35 bins of 60 litres, rising by 100+	71% fewer collections, 54% fewer km, 30% fewer working hours, payback under a year
Vejle	Municipality-wide, 2,000 km of roads	547 of 875 public bins	Twice weekly to fortnightly; 2.0 to 1.5 FTE; targets of 30% less travel, 40% economic gain, 5.5 t CO₂/yr
Fanø	Island, population 3,000–50,000 by season	82 semi-buried containers, 14 sites	20% fewer emptyings in two months against a 25% target
Langeland	Rural island, ~30 collection points	220 sensors, 10 waste fractions	One vehicle removed; 176 km inspection round eliminated; 1 fault in 220 units

Figures as published by the operating authorities. Britannia IoT Solutions supplies the same sensor and software platform in the United Kingdom.

Questions

About this evidence

Are these your customers?

No, and we would rather say so plainly. These are published deployments by European public bodies of the sensor and software platform we supply in the UK. We present them as evidence that the technology works in daily municipal service, with attributable numbers behind it, because that is a more useful thing for a prospective customer to assess than an unverifiable claim. Britannia IoT Solutions is a young company and our own UK deployments are at an early stage.

Why are all the examples European rather than British?

Because Denmark and Germany adopted this technology at municipal scale several years before the UK did, so that is where the multi-year operating evidence exists. The underlying situation is not materially different: a district council emptying street bins twice a week to a fixed timetable faces the same problem as Stralsund did, and a coastal authority with a summer population spike faces Fanø's problem almost exactly.

Would we get the same results?

Possibly better, possibly worse, and nobody can tell you which before measuring. The gains depend on how over-serviced your current rounds are and how much driving sits between your stops. An authority emptying rural bring sites on a fixed fortnightly cycle has a great deal of slack to recover; a dense urban round where every bin genuinely fills daily has very little. That is exactly what a 90-day pilot against your own baseline establishes, at small cost, before any significant commitment.

Next step

See what your own bin data would say

A 90-day pilot on one round tells you exactly how much of your current collection effort is going to bins that were not full. No commitment beyond the pilot, and you keep the data.

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