Why Choose Relay®?
Relay features sensors within litter receptacles and recycling stations, wireless communications, and a dedicated web portal for access to container conditions.
STREET-LEVEL MONITORING:
Continuous data and customized alerts including overflows, rummaging, and high temperatures.
REAL-TIME WASTE MANAGEMENT:
Optimize collections by servicing only containers that need it — saving time, resources, and energy.
SMART SENSOR
DATA:
Measurable analytics to cut CO2 emissions and encourage environmental equity while reducing costs.
Track & tackle everything
from
cost savings to
environmental equity.
With Relay® sensor technology and its data driven waste collection, you’re saving much more than waste management costs. Because along with measuring receptacle fill levels for more efficient collection, Relay also collects street-level data that can help cut CO₂ emissions, improve public health and bring environmental equity to all parts of the city.

Save 70–90%
in collection expenses.
Most current waste and recycling collection systems follow a static model, where containers are picked up regardless of their content or fill level. This inefficiency has an impact on monetary, environmental, and community costs, with some containers overfilling before they are collected, while others sit empty, yet are picked up anyway. There wasn’t a better way, so we created one.
Victor Stanley Relay modernizes this system by monitoring the fill levels and weights of all containers, so that they can be collected at the optimal time. This service saves on collection expenses and ensures resources are allocated efficiently, while reducing fuel costs, carbon footprints, and unsightly overflowing waste.
For details on chart data, see Pittsburgh Case Study.
HOURS SPENT COLLECTING WASTE
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GPS Location
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Fill Level
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Weight
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Temperature
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Rummaging
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Noise
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Pedestrian
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Climate
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Pollution
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Odor
EASE EMPLOYMENT SHORTAGES
Sensor equipped waste bins send Pittsburgh real-time data, monitoring everything from fullness to street-level conditions. Now that crews can optimize their collection, a job that once required 25 people now only takes 9. Allowing workers to focus on other pressing tasks, including street repairs, cleaning up vacant lots, and improving street-level conditions in disadvantaged areas.

A Hauler’s Helping Hand
Pair your Relay sensors and smart containers with the advanced Relay platform to start using data to drive your collections. Haulers everywhere can minimize fuel costs, wasted resources, and CO₂ emissions by using sensing technology to only make stops when a collection is truly required.
· Optimized turn-by-turn routing
· Accessible fill level data
· Collection efficiency statistics
· Flexible pickup thresholds
· Custom work order platform
· Improved customer experience
· Reduced environmental impact

Waste receptacles outfitted with street-level sensors and wireless technology are rapidly becoming a prominent part of any Smart City. Business Improvement Districts, Universities, and Parks across the United States have modernized their waste collection and subscribed to Victor Stanley Relay.
Get started with Relay, today.

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Awards
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Smart 50 Award | 50 Most Transformative in Urban Operations
The City of Pittsburgh Modernizes Their Waste Collection Process While Combating Climate Change – Collaborative Case Study with Victor Stanley, Pittsburgh, PA
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Bright Lights Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship 2017
Recognizes and celebrates innovation in the private and nonprofit sectors that strengthen Maryland’s economy, generate jobs and tax revenue and develop new ideas that more effectively deliver services and products within the marketplace. “It’s important we recognize these innovators who, through their creativity and willingness to assume risk, are changing the way we experience the world” - Comptroller of Maryland, Peter Franchot.
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College Planning & Management New Product Platinum Award 2016
The New Product Award program honors the outstanding product development achievements of Victor Stanley whose Relay Sensor & Service is considered to be particularly noteworthy in its ability to enhance the learning environment.