Research Proposal

Food spoilage is a major problem, contributing to food waste, costing households billions of dollars every year, and posing a health risk. However, family refrigerators lack any sort of automated tracking system to track the status of the food and its shelf life. This project is a significant step towards a technology located inside a refrigerator which can prevent spoilage, reduce waste, and improve food safety for families. This project is an improvement of the current fridge, using computer vision, barcode data, and time tracking to create a fully automated system which trains itself. Most refrigerators lack any system to track the items inside. If they have the ability, it is often through photos of receipts or for manual inputs for each product. Although many of the aims having already been created to an extent, the focus for this innovation is to combine the capabilities of computer vision, barcode scanning, and time tracking.

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