The International Journal of Engineering and Science (IJES) || Volume || 7 || Issue || 9 Ver.III || Pages || PP 55-63 || 2018 || ISSN (e): 2319 – 1813 ISSN (p): 23-19 – 1805 DOI:10.9790/1813-0709035563 www.theijes.com Page 55 Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things enabled Circular economy Tamil Selvan Ramadoss (1) , Hilaal Alam (2) And Prof Ramakrishna Seeram (1) 1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, National University of Singapore, 117575, Singapore 2 Qubitor Pte Ltd, 79, JTC LaunchPad @ OneNorth, Singapore, 139955 Corresponding Author:Tamil Selvan RAMADOSS --------------------------------------------------------ABSTRACT----------------------------------------------------------- A circular economy is an industrial system that is restorative or regenerative by intention and design. It replaces the end-of-life concept with restoration, shifts towards the use of renewable energy, eliminates the use of toxic chemicals, which impair reuse and return to the biosphere, and aims for the elimination of waste through the superior design of materials, products, systems and business models. The new dimensions of product development and reuse concept in circular economy would also significantly increase the operational facility and network complexity. In this line, Internet of Things is a new emerging technology along with artificial intelligence is proposed to overcome the challenges in circular economy concept KEYWORDS; -IoT, Artificial intelligence, Machine learning, Big Data, Blockchain and Circular economy --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date of Submission: 07-09-2018 Date of acceptance: 24-09-2018 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I. INTRODUCTION Growth by trashing the planet is never a clever idea and hence re-usability is catching up fast leading to circular economy. Make, usage and disposal shaped up the “Linear model” throughout the human history millennia. Linear model or economy (LE) in which only virgin materials flow into the system or value chain to transform into value addition.It is estimated that the current global Municipal Solid Waste generation levels are approximately 1.3 billion tonnes per year and are expected to increase to approximately 2.2 billion tonnes per year by 2025 [1]. This represents a significant increase in per capita waste generation rates, from 1.2 to 1.42 kg per person per day in the next fifteen years. On the other hand, according to the latest international report, the world has disposed staggering 44.7 million metric tonnes of e-waste in 2016. That’s the weight of almost 4,500 Eiffel towers, and equivalent to 61kg of e-waste thrown away per person in 2016 [2]. As per the report – The Global E-waste Monitor 2017 is going to increase by 17 per cent to 52.5 million metric tonnes by 2021. The report showed that very little about 20%, is being recycled. With rising global energy consumption, rapid depletion of natural resources, environmental impact and other social consequences have alerted policy makers and governments to re-think the current socioeconomic system. Hence it becomes increasingly clear that the linear economy model is no longer sustainable because of excessive energy usage, erosion of ecosystems and increased waste generation. Concerning these threats and disadvantages of LE, the circular economy (CE) is recommended by global policy makers as an alternative model. A circular economy is an alternative to a traditional linear economy (make, use, dispose) in which we keep resources in use for as long as possible, extract the maximum value from them whilst in use, then recover and regenerate products and materials at the end of each service life [3]. As the CE is a sustainable model whereby components and raw materials involved in the value chain is continuously recycled and restored however this model poses a completely new challenge to resolve without which it will become an expensive model. In this paper we are discussing about the circular economy and current challenges, we discussed emerging technologies such as Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Big data analytics, Quantum cryptography to augment circular economy and the benefits of implementing technologies in circular economy II. CHALLENGES AND LIMITATIONS OF CIRCULAR ECONOMY CE model has numerous advantages such as materials reuse, regenerative, environmental sustainability, control of rising resource costs, etc. [4, 5]. when compared to LE principles and the economic benefits of circular economy into viable business model is estimated to be worth more than one trillion dollars in materials savings. The transformation from linear economy to circular requires huge collective efforts by governments, policy makers and industries. Although CE is a sustainable business model, often the CE model is arguable, as