We all agree that COVID has turned our lives upside down. Each one of us is now under house arrest and struggling to adapt to this new lifestyle of managing home and work simultaneously.
This new lifestyle has not only taken a toll on our physical health but also on our mental health. I am no different, with the added household responsibilities, it has become arduous for me to manage it along with the office work especially when it comes to maintain a grocery list. Every time a grocery item was missed out of the list, the task became more daunting.
I then turned to Alexa to track the shopping list for me. It was then when I thought to myself that what if we could have jars in our kitchen that would automatically maintain a grocery list and notify us? Wouldn’t that make life simpler and more interesting?
Here, I will explain the concept of Smart Kitchen and the major components required to implement this concept.
To maintain the list of grocery items which is running out, we would require a set of Smart Jars.
Smart Jar — which would digitally display the weight of the jar — would also be IoT-enabled and have the capability to send the weight change events to a cloud Smart Kitchen application.
Smart Kitchen Solution
Comprises five major components:
- Mobile App
- IoT Event Broker
- Weight Change Event Processor
- Notification Processor
- E-commerce API Integration
Mobile App
- Customer needs to install this app on their mobile device and register themselves
- Customer would be able to maintain the shopping list and the jars threshold value using mobile app
- Customer will receive push notifications for the grocery items which will be consumed shortly.
- Customer could define the preferred mode for communication that could be Sms, Email, or Alexa. Push Notification will be default mode.
Customer — Smart Jar AssociationEach Smart Jar comes with a unique id and a QR code. When the customer purchases Smart Jar from the vendor, she has to register the Jar with her Smart kitchen account using her mobile app’s QR Scan code feature. Once registered, she could define the Threshold Value of jar like 300gm or 500 gm depending upon the type and utility of the item. Lets say the customer purchased two Smart Jars of 2 Kg. In one jar, she is storing sugar, and in another, coffee beans. Consumption of sugar is more frequent than coffee beans so the Threshold value of coffee beans could be 300gm, but for sugar, it could be 500 gm. Once the customer consumes ≥1500gm sugar, she will receive a notification, and sugar will be added to her shopping list. Doesn’t it sounds cool?
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