Smart Refrigerator using Internet of Things (IoT)
The refrigerator is the most frequently used domiciliary/kitchen electrical appliance all over the world for food storage. Principally this appliance is used for various tenacities like storing vegetables, fruits etc. Smart refrigeration module is designed to convert any existing normal refrigerator into a smart and low-cost machine using sensors. Smart refrigerator compares the status of the food for e.g. weight, quantity etc. The significance of this work will be removable of food spoilage, reduce illness and make a healthier lifestyle of modern age human being. The smart refrigerator is capable of sensing and monitoring its contents and also provides advantageous features. The smart refrigerator is also able to remotely on-off control and notifies the user about scarce products via wifi module (internet) on user’s mobile android application. It also facilitates the purchase of scarce items by providing a one-touch button on mobile application from predefined nearer grocery vendor of that particular item by sending SMS. The core functionality of the smart fridge is to maintain, with minimum effort, food items which might want to be purchased as soon as they run out. As a result, the user is notified every time if eggs are finished. The load cell triggers a notification of available fewer vegetables to the user as soon as the applied pressure is below threshold kg. IR proximity sensors monitor the containers in which milk or juice are sensed. Additional functionality includes the ice ready indication, power saving, smell detection, overweighting etc.
Published by: Prof. M. K. Sangole, Bhushan Sunil Nasikkar, Dhananjay V. Kulkarni, Gitesh K. Kakuste
Author: Prof. M. K. Sangole
Paper ID: V3I1-1375
Paper Status: published
Published: February 20, 2017
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