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A key component in effective kitchen management is inventory control. Keeping track of the kitchen inventory leads to more informed planning and decision-making. With technology advancing in a fast pace and everything around us becoming automated, people prefer to monitor and perform their day-to-day activities by using the smart devices they carry everywhere rather than manually recording and monitoring things. Maintaining and keeping track of everyday common food inventory is becoming one of the major problems in various households, restaurants and food chains. Replenishing the containers at the right moment and also knowing the expiry of foods is a major concern. Working people and busy restaurants find it difficult to keep track because it requires human intervention at the right time. Through this, it is easy to keep an eye on potential problems related to waste and pilferage. In this project we propose an IOT (Internet of Things) based food inventory tracking system, which ensures real time monitoring of the kitchen inventory. The collected data can be analysed in real time to understand the daily or weekly consumption and also predict usage/consumption patterns. There is also provision to check the real time status, history of consumption through an android application. The system contains a Microcontroller, load cell and wireless Module, MQTT broker, a desktop application and an Android application through which real time inventory tracking is performed. The proposed solution is completely wireless and reliable for both domestic and commercial purposes.
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Lakshmi Narayan, S.P., Kavinkartik, E., Prabhu, E. (2019). IoT Based Food Inventory Tracking System. In: Thampi, S., Marques, O., Krishnan, S., Li, KC., Ciuonzo, D., Kolekar, M. (eds) Advances in Signal Processing and Intelligent Recognition Systems. SIRS 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 968. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-5758-9_4
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