Executive Summary
The exponential growth of technology during the past decades and its
implications on our everyday lives has lead to a mass demand for
information and convenience. Social networks and search engines
provide information about our friends, our community and our world;
all while making tasks such as planning a party and writing an essay
much easier. It is this demand for information and convenience, which
drives the development of smart devices. From cars that park
themselves through coffee makers that prepare your coffee to be ready
when you wake up to pill bottle caps that let you know when it is time
to take your medicine, the world is moving towards active devices
which provide more complex services. Smart Appliances alone are
expected to surge to $26.1 billion annually by 2019 [1]. Existing high
end refrigerators offer internet access, the ability to play music and
even complex temperature regulators which make sure that your ice
cream will always be creamy. However, none of them take advantage
of the vast amount of information that lies in the products stored
inside.
Our proposed solution Smart Fridge capable of tracking its contents
through readily available and user-registered RFID tags. This
information will then be stored and processed to provide beneficial
applications for the user. The Smart Fridge will allow users to take
control of their diet by presenting nutritional information in a userfriendly manner, warn users of products with upcoming expiration
dates to avoid wasting food and even help users create their next
grocery shopping list based on what they usually buy. All this features
will provide users with a convenient way of planning and managing
their groceries and eating habits.
The remainder of this document outlines the Smart Fridge system,
presents an overview of the system architecture, illustrates the
system’s features and outlines our strategy to complete this project on
time and on budget. We have divided the project into three main areas:
hardware
integration,
system
communication
and
software
development. All three areas will be tested separately and after
integration to have a complete working prototype by the first week of
December, 2011. The entire project has a tentative budget of $980.00
and a funding plan is already in place. Project Description
A UPC scanner will be used to identify items added or removed from the refrigerator’s inventory; a
database of UPC codes will translate from the scanned code to an item description. Two databases will be
maintained, one linking UPC codes to product descriptions and expiration dates and another to store items
currently checked into the refrigerator. A central processing platform on the base station will be used to
decode UPC information and to store and interact with the databases. This platform will provide a web
interface accessible both via a display on the main unit and also using a mobile interface. The display on the main unit will allow a user both to check current inventory with expiration dates and to provide
additional information when adding or removing items. Both the base station and mobile interfaces can also
be used to display and modify suggested shopping lists. The mobile application will interact with the same
web interface but will provide a graphical interface optimized for smaller displays. The system will
continually estimate the frequency that particular items are purchased and will use this information,
combined with the expiration dates and purchase dates, to suggest shopping lists. In addition to shelf life,
temperature is also a critical factor for food storage systems. To address this need the system will
incorporate a temperature and humidity sensor, and this information will be accessible through the mobile
application. Project Objectives
The objective of this project is to design a prototype that will allow a user to track food items in order to
reduce waste and improve shopping efficiency. The system will remind the user about items nearing their
expiration date and track the frequency of purchased items. From this frequency calculation the system will
suggest typical shopping lists. A mobile phone application will provide an interface to the unit to view or
create shopping lists and to query inventory

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