Author : Soumya Patil 1
Date of Publication :7th April 2016
Abstract: This paper describes a conceptual design of a Smart Kitchen Cabinet, a system for maintaining inventory status of grocery items in the kitchen automatically. This system incorporates grocery item identification, inventory management of grocery items and automatic generation of shopping list. Individual grocery items can be equipped with sensors to detect how full they are. The Smart Kitchen Cabinet consists of two different sections each leveraging two sensing mechanisms: weight sensing and level sensing. Level sensing section consists of fixed size container having RFID tag defining container size with product description, RFID tag reader, and an Ultrasonic level sensor for measuring the level of contents in the container. On the other hand the weight sensing section consists of RFID tags with similar container specification and content identification, RFID tag reader, and weight sensor measuring all the contents on that shelf. The embedded sensors measure the weight or the level of the items which is updated to the database whenever grocery items are placed or taken out for cooking. When the items reach the predefined threshold level, the system generates the automated shopping list.
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