Smart Kitchen
Suppakrit Forbes Chatchayanusorn
Charles Christopher Onyeama
Nachiket Shelgikar
Saravana Sivasankaran
How it works!
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System
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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
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All the products will be RFID tagged replacing currently
used UPC Barcodes
Test Cases
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Transmission of tags to Gumstix
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Connect Gumstix to a terminal on PC during
testing
Print data as it is processed in real time
Transmission of database to phone
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Dump tag database out to screen on gumstix and
compare it to file received on the phone
Demo Scenario
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User walks in with a couple of bags full of
groceries
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The RFID reader reads all the tags on the
different products
The gumstix processor updates the ‘current
status’ of the kitchen – oblivious to the user
Evaluation Criteria
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Read tags on all the products in the time that
a person enters the house
Cope up with the reader’s capability of
reading multiple tags per second (25ms per
tag)
Reading different tags close to each other
Not reading any tag multiple times
Looking Ahead
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Issues with RFID tags
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Not working efficiently with metals and/ or some
liquids
Most difficult test case
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Direction of motion given the constraint of one
RFID reader