Demand analysis for

efficient waste management

Sanyam
Pramod
Atharva
Saurav
Rishik
 SPECIAL THANKS
Mr. G. RATNAKARAN
CHIEF MESS SUPERVISOR
VIT, Vellore
 Wastage = Production - Consumption
Demand: Estimate of consumption
(Predicted value)

Our aim is to calculate the demand and base

the production on the demand, hence
minimising wastage.
Everyday, there’s lots of food that is
wastage without even being served.

Take, VIT Messes, for example, there’s a lot

of food in every meal that need not be
cooked. It goes waste.

We certainly can help prevent THAT

wastage.
A highly efficient machine learning based system to
predict the demand and moderate production
accordingly to reduce wastage.
● Data Collection
● Data Sanitisation
● Training Models, based on Data Sets
● Predicting Wastage
● Minimising Wastage

Cheers!
● Data depicting the relationship between
○ Day of the Week
○ Wastage (kg)

Data Sanitization:
● Treating public holidays and vacation days
as a separate data set
 Scale:

Y-axis:-1 unit-->1 kg

X-axis:-days of the
week

Food Wastage vs Day of the Week

 Scale:-

Y-axis:-
1 unit->0.5kg

X-axis:-meals of the
day

Food Wastage vs Different Meals of the Day

Predictions
Per week prediction:

1. Monday → x kg
2. Tuesday → (yp) & (yi)
3. ….
Predictions
Per day prediction:

1. Breakfast→ x kg
2. Lunch→ (yp) & (yi)
3. Dinner → (zp) & (zi)
Mean Square Error

Mean Absolute Error

Mean Biased Error

Error Minimization

W=

1. Days of week
2. Mess attendance
Challenges
1. Scarce dataset for training
2. Public holidays and vacations
Solving them ...
1. Re-assign the weights and train the model again.
This would solve the issue of scarce dataset available.
Every time user enters his real world value, simultaneous changes
would be made to the dataset.

2. Public holidays and abnormal days are removed from the dataset
for normalization.
Conclusion

1. We strive to achieve accuracy upto 70%

2. Re-evaluation model to reach accuracy
upto 80%
Thank You