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The Pervasive Fridge. A smart computer system against uneaten food loss.

Authors:
José Rouillard

Keywords: Application-oriented system, pervasive computing, ubiquitous computing, ambient intelligence, fridge, barcode scanner, voice interaction, SMS, android.

Abstract:
Food waste or food loss is food that is discarded or lost uneaten. The work presented in this paper is related to our researches in the field of pervasive and ubiquitous computing. Our “Pervasive Fridge” prototype allows users to be notified proactively, when a food arrives to its expiration date. Speech and image recognition are also integrated in our prototype. This system combines various resources in order to scan barcode, identify and store data related to products, with a smartphone. Later, notifications are sent freely to consumers by mail, SMS (with no charge) and pop-up, to avoid uneaten food loss.

Pages: 135 to 140

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: February 29, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4243

ISBN: 978-1-61208-184-7

Location: Saint Gilles, Reunion

Dates: from February 29, 2012 to March 5, 2012