Bigbelly Blog: Beyond the Bin

Bigbelly ICT Featured at Smart Cities Week!

This fall, Smart Cities Council and the Wireless Infrastructure Association (WIA) have joined forces to present Smart Cities Week, a unique month-long digital engagement to unite cities around the world. With the guiding ideology of "cities helping cities" the virtual event connects cities to facilitate dialogue, share data and resources, and help create actionable plans to serve their communities.

[To Learn More about the Smart Cities Week program, visit https://global.smartcitiesweek.com/about/]

Watch: Bigbelly on ""SMART ALTERNATIVES TO SMALL CELL DEPLOYMENT"

The IoT age leaves no room for unauthorized access, lack of workforce oversight, lost keys or broken locks. And now, neither do we.

Bigbelly is launching the latest evolution in smart waste technology: the Bigbelly Access Control System, affectionately known as "ACS."  Bigbelly ACS is a comprehensive, cloud-based Access Control System for the Bigbelly smart waste solution and your workforce, providing unprecedented visibility & fleet management capabilities. 

Now access your Bigbelly stations with just a tap of a unique key card!  No metal keys, no cylinder locks, and the addition of better operational insights.

August, 2020: The City of Milwaukee, WI adopts the innovative AND inconspicuous Telebelly solution: Bigbelly's multipurpose platform for hosting small cell & IT in the public right-of-way.

Major stakeholders in the project included two national wireless carriers, and the City itself. The new Telebelly stations host small cell within their unit, as well as provide a smart waste solution to the community.

Learn more about the Bigbelly Telebelly Multipurpose Platform here!

We're putting our foot down, literally.

Imagine never having to touch a public trash can with your hands. First and foremost, it's a sigh of relief, as it's no one's first choice to touch a public waste receptacle. It's also an essential pillar in Public Health innovation: to limit the interaction between the pedestrians and public waste. Smart, sustainable cities are healthy cities, after all.

Congratulations are certainly in order for the newest San Francisco Community Benefit District (CBD) to launch a fully-fledged fleet of Bigbelly Smart Waste Stations.  Welcome to the Bigbelly family, Tenderloin!

Helping keep communities clean is in our DNA.  Bigbelly was founded on the idea of using clean, renewable solar to offset diesel fumes and keep litter off our streets and parks.  With this new challenge facing the world, we are also doing our part to help curb the spread of infectious diseases - and help our communities get back on track.  

Mobile World Congress, Los Angeles: at the GSMA 2019 Mobile World Congress Los Angeles, GSMA Innovation City showcased a worldwide community of innovative Mobile Connectivity technologies.  The leading-edge neighborhood of telecom partners each highlighted their unique mobile & IoT innovations: "solutions which benefit from a combination of the 5G era family of mobile networks." Bigbelly collaborated with mobile communication partner Telit to demonstrate the power of mobile communication in a Smart Waste ecosystem.

WATCH THE FULL INTERVIEW FROM THE SHOW!  Telit’s Northeast Director of Sales Mike Nagle shows off Bigbelly Solar’s IoT waste solution at MWC19

NEEDHAM, MA — December 12, 2019 — Bigbelly Solar, the global leader in smart waste solutions for public spaces, announced today that it has partnered with McCarthy Capital to recapitalize the Company and provide further cash investment to accelerate growth. McCarthy Capital, a private equity firm headquartered in Omaha, NE, manages more than $1 billion of investment capital across its portfolio of companies and specializes in growing businesses in partnership with management teams.

Västerås, Sweden - Ever wonder what a Bigbelly is thinking? How "smart" are these street-side Smart Waste monsters? Now Sweden can talk some serious trash with a Bigbelly right in their neighborhood! Feed a Bigbelly its favorite lunch, and it'll share a fun fact about Sustainability.

Marco Island, FL: Announced in June 2019, Marco Island's inaugural fleet of Bigbelly Solar Smart Waste Stations would be on their way, and the City was thrilled to go solar!  And just this past week, the fleet was officially installed across Winterberry Beach, Tigertail Beach, South Beach, and Caxambas Boat Park.  Marco Island's leadership team followed the in the footsteps of Delray Beach, having been delighted by their results.