ENHANCEMENT OF AN INTERACTIVE SMART REFRIGERATOR BASED ON EMBEDDED SYSTEM

1. Pritam Pain ; Email ID: pritampain2000@gmail.com, 2. Abhishek Chakraborty ; Email ID: abhishekchakraborty185@gmail.com
UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING & MANAGEMENT, KOLKATA

ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION METHODOLOGY

Wasted food due to spoilage is a critical resource issue. Food
waste or food loss is food that is discarded or lost uneaten.
Currently, in the world, according to the Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO),
consumers waste about 1.3 billion tons of food annually and
consumers in rich countries waste about 222 million tons of
food products. Because of new and advanced technologies,
embedded system-based application is widely used and the
people’s needs for smart home system is increased. Based
on the embedded system, an interactive intelligent system
for smart refrigerators is designed and established, which
fully considers the characteristics of existing refrigerator and
people’s demand. The idea of connecting home appliances
to the internet or the smart home environment has been
seen as the future and is highly regarded as the next big
thing. It will be smart enough to notify the current status of
food items through an android app on our mobile phone,
Thus it will save the money and food wastage.
OBJECTIVE
✓ Provide ON/OFF control through mobile phone
✓ Send SMS for items to be order
✓ Gives indication when ice is ready
✓ Sends alert when smell in fridge exceeds threshold
✓ Detects volume of liquid in bottles
✓ Gives alert when hot items are placed in refrigerator
✓ Save energy by sensing temperature during winter
✓ Indication when main door or freezer door is opened for
long time
✓ Gives alert on expiry of products in refrigerator
✓ Detects the over weight on the tray
The Internet of Things refers to the use of intelligent
connected devices and systems to leverage data gathered by
embedding sensors and actuators in machines and other
physical objects. The IoT creates an intelligent, invisible
network fabric that can be sensed, controlled and
programmed. IoT-enabled products employ embedded
technology that allows them to communicate, directly or
indirectly, with each other or the Internet. Manufacturers
always try to figure out a way or make an improvement to
make smart products in the kitchen that reduce waste and
energy use and increase convenience. With the rapid
development of intelligent technology, people’s demand for
smart products as well as their dependency on technology
equipment is increasing, instead of being satisfied with
current life state . Due to its more popular humanization, the
intelligent refrigerator has been gradually applied and
promoted in the high-end residence. Due to low power
characteristic and low network charges of wireless sensors,
wireless and Bluetooth technology becomes more popular.
Due to low power characteristic, low network charges of
wireless sensors, Bluetooth technology becomes popular.
SENSORS USED IN SMART
REFRIGERATOR
❖ TEMPERATURE SENSOR
❖ ODOUR SENSOR
❖ PROXIMITY SENSOR
❖ LOAD CELL
❖ IR SENSOR
❖ DOOR SENSOR
❖ ICE BUCKET LEVEL SENSOR
❖ LEVEL SENSOR
❖ OVER WEIGHT SENSOR
The system comprises of minimum four sections where the
sensors are placed Proximity sensors are placed along with a
counter which can be used to sense the number of eggs
inside the refrigerator, also they are used to detect the level
of milk and soft drinks in the container. The fourth
application is to sense the presence of vegetables in the
refrigerator which is being done with the help of pressure
sensors which has a threshold of 500gm approximately.
Whenever the contents inside the refrigerator goes below
the set threshold it generates a trigger which is being
transmitted in the form of message to the user. The another
application is to check whether ice is ready, and give
indication on front panel of refrigerator. This system is based
on Internet of Things so all the data from the sensors is
provided to microcontroller and through microcontroller it
will be placed on the cloud through Wi-Fi chip interfaced to
the controller. User will have android app which will
download data from cloud so as the user can monitor
contents as well as he/she can control the refrigerator
remotely through internet.
SYSTEM DIAGRAM

RESULT & DISCUSSION

Requirement of IoT based technologies upto 2050

INNOVATION
The Smart Refrigerator module is designed that modifies any
existing normal refrigerator into a smart refrigerator which is cost
effective, using various sensors. With smart detecting innovation,
this fridge will keep beware of the expiry of nourishment items , the
waste of edible things. It will be sharp enough to tell the present
status of things through an android application on phone, and will
CIRCUIT DIAGRAM similarly remind us about the things that are going to rot before
they truly get ruined. In this manner, it will save money and wastage
of food, help us to carry on a more advantageous way of life.

CONCLUSION
The Smart Refrigerator module can inform the user and
control its functions inside the refrigerator. It eases purchasing
the food items from the online vendors. Notifications and
information inside the application that is sent to the user via
Use of IoT at various applications android applications. This module helps the user to designate
a placed order and the other users to acknowledge the placed
order. The transformation of traditional refrigerator to smart
and intelligent refrigerator is done using Arduino UNO and
firebase and the module allows to detect the shortage of food
items and notifies the user and it uploads the information to
cloud service along with the data of refrigerator temperature
and humidity. This system is cost-effective and it can be used
for any refrigerator just consuming some space in the fridge.
The future work can be done on implementation of amazon
web services like image recognition softwares to detect what
is inside the refrigerator by mounting a camera and using
image processing algorithms of the softwares which return
user the item name along with other details.
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