Smart Kitchen

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Smart Kitchen

• Suppakrit Forbes Chatchayanusorn
• Charles Christopher Oneyama
• Nachiket Shelgikar
• Saravana Sivasankaran

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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

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And off we go to Giant Eagle!!
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Smart kitchen to the rescue!
Before Not really sure
I saw a gallon of milk in the fridge, I wont be
needing one
Do I have cheese at home??
After Knows exactly what he wants
His Smart phone/ PDA
He bought the milk!
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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

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Competition

• Biggest Threat
• Customers themselves
• Similar products
• Smart Fridge by LG
• 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

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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

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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
• Software
• Networking software for Smart Phone /PDA
• Protocols
• RFID
• Bluetooth
• 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

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Questions???