Smart Kitchen
Suppakrit Forbes Chatchayanusorn
Charles Christopher Oneyama
Nachiket Shelgikar
Saravana Sivasankaran
Understand the Pain
• Grocery Shopping
– Too much time and effort
– Likely to miss out on key
items
• The New Era Ushered in
by Smart kitchen
– No more shopping lists
– Instant notifications and
status updates on the
‘inventory’ in the
household onto your smart
phone/ PDA
And off we go… to Giant Eagle!!
Smart kitchen to the rescue!
Before: Not really sure…
Do I have
cheese at
home??
After: Knows exactly what he wants
His
Smart
phone/
PDA
He
bought
the milk!
I saw a gallon of
milk in the fridge, I
won’t be needing
one…
How it works!
• System
– Smart phone/ PDA with Docking Station
– RFID reader reads tags off the products in the
kitchen and updates the ‘status’ of the kitchen.
– Smart phone/ PDA generates a shopping list based
on ideal stock and current kitchen status
• Assumptions
– All the products will be RFID tagged replacing
currently used UPC Barcodes
Competition
• Biggest Threat
– Customers themselves
• Similar products
– Smart Fridge by LG
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Built in LCD TV
Recipe Book
Internet Connectivity
Disadvantages
– Have to put in all the product information manually 
– Manages only the refrigerator contents
• Web-enabled fridges by Samsung and Electrolux
Requirements
• Make an accurate shopping list within 30
seconds of taking the smart phone off the
dock
• Modularity
– Would consider the product successful if
customers can incorporate the device with
minimal adjustments to their existing
appliances
Parts
•
Hardware
– RFID related
• Inexpensive RFID reader modules
• Compatible Antennae
– to boost the range of the readers to ~ 2 m
• Passive RFID Tags
– Programmable to put the relevant product information
– Smart phone/ PDA
– Docking Station
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Software
– Networking software for Smart Phone /PDA
•
Protocols:
– RFID
– Bluetooth
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Additional Bells and Whistles
– High resolution camera to send latest pictures of the interior of the fridge
– Come up with the fastest path of going around the grocery store while shopping
Questions???