For public works departments
Your illegal-dumping backlog is a data problem.
Crews lose hours driving to wrong locations, re-clearing sites that were already picked up, and chasing duplicate 311 requests — while genuinely missed piles sit unfound. Aerbits turns aerial imagery into a verified work queue, so every trip starts from ground truth.
What a growing backlog actually costs
When illegal dumping outpaces your crews, the work order is rarely the expensive part. The expensive part is the trip to a site you didn't need to visit, the second visit because a report was wrong, and the pile nobody reported at all. Most departments can't see those costs because the data was never collected — the only record is a truck rolling past a windshield.
Figures draw on our San Francisco Bayview-Hunters Point pilot (13 months) and our published work-order cost model. Methods are documented in our articles — see the links below.
Where we help
Shrink the backlog
Prioritize verified piles by size, location, and repeat-offender status instead of clearing the queue in the order tickets arrived.
Reduce the backlog →Verify before dispatch
Confirm the location, size, and contents of every report before a truck rolls — and close or correct orders crews would have wasted a trip on.
Work order verification →Price the problem honestly
See what an incorrect work order, an ordinary one, and a missing one really cost — and why we price per corrected order, not per hour flown.
Cost of bad work orders →How it works, in one loop
- Fly and detect. Fixed-route aerial surveys over your service area, with an in-house AI model tuned to illegal-dumping piles. No license-plate readers, no facial recognition, no law enforcement.
- Verify and correct. Each report is checked against fresh imagery: right location, right size, right contents — and duplicates are consolidated.
- Hand off a clean queue. Your crews get work orders with imagery and ground-truth context, in whatever system they already use.
- Close the loop. The next flight confirms the cleanup, documents it, and flags anything still there.
Your team does the cleanup. We help make the work visible — and make sure it was actually needed.
Questions departments ask us
- Does this replace our crews?
- No. Aerbits is an operations layer for the crews you already have. We reduce wasted trips and surface missed piles — the cleanup is still yours.
- How does a pilot start?
- Pick one service area and agree on measures before flying. We publish a printable pilot discussion brief to scope area, workflow, and success criteria.
- What does it cost?
- We price per corrected work order, not per hour flown: no charge when nothing changes. See the cost-of-bad-work-orders page for how we think about it.
- What about privacy?
- The system detects trash, not people. No license-plate readers, no facial recognition, no personal data. See our privacy policy.
Discuss a pilot
Bring one service area. Start a practical conversation.
Tell us the area you have in mind and how your crews work today. We'll show what aerial verification would change before you commit to anything.