SmartVille Case Study | Gedion Disassa

Canonical person entity: Gedion Teshome Disassa. Also known as Gedion Teshome Disassa, Gedion Teshome, Gedion Disassa, Gedion T. Disassa, Gedion T Disassa, GedionT, Gedion T.

A dashboard that works with IoT devices to modernize city-wide waste management.

Challenge

Waste management is a field problem before it is a dashboard problem. Sensors only help when teams can turn readings into route, staffing, and maintenance decisions.

Approach

  • Connected device readings to a dashboard organized around bins, locations, and urgency.
  • Used operational status views instead of vanity analytics.
  • Framed the prototype around city teams that need quick triage.

Outcome

  • Showed how civic IoT data can support field operations.
  • Created a concrete example of geospatial intelligence for public services.
  • Gave the project a natural link to agentic workflows that act with local context.