Edge Computing Enabled Smart Warehouse Management System for Food Processing Industries

Food safety is a primary concern across all global platforms, and food storage is a crucial and essential part of management. This clarifies that food warehousing should be fully automated or has some management system. Good food storage plays a vital role in food security, which is affected by food waste and food loss. As a result, it is critical to identify and remove microbial contamination before it spreads to other items. To end that, we propose an edge computing-enabled intelligent warehouse system with an ESP32 microcontroller and micropython. The food commodities studied in the other papers were fish, dairy, fresh food products, crop-field cucumber, seafood, wine, and pre-packaged food. The various gas sensors are used to detect microbial growth, food decay, and shelf life. Humidity and temperature sensors are employed to monitor the warehouse environment, along with RFID technology to track food items. Multiple nodes accessible via Telegram and dashboard notifications will be put in the building to enable law enforcement collaboration. These nodes will exchange information on the building's structure. Compared to the traditional warehouse management system, the proposed edge computing-enabled IoT warehouse shelves reduce waste and contamination in fruit and vegetable chambers. Designs are experimented with different sets of fruits and vegetables. Continuous live monitoring and an alert system demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed innovative framework compared with an existing management system.