Next generation Fruit Vending Machine using Artificial Intelligence

An automatic vending machine is designed to supply people with a variety of items, such as snacks, beverages, newspapers, and tickets without any human intervention. According to the money that is deposited into a vending machine as well as the product that has been selected by the user, the machine will determine the item and will distribute it to the user. In the proposed work, the vending machine has been designed to distribute fruits to the user as per their requirement. Classification algorithms have been used to predict the type of fruits required by the user with the help of the input provided by camera. The load cell is used to measure the kilogram or the quantity of the fruits as per the requirement by using some input peripherals like keyboard. The proposed system is also a user interactive based once. Here, there is a display device that has interfaced with the system and the display device will provide information such as the fruit which has been chosen and the quantity of the fruit that the user has entered and also shares the information on the status of the requirements. So, it will be useful for the user to know the process going in the vending machine. The raspberry pi microprocessor has employed here as a processor along the required input and output peripherals like LCD, Keypad, Load cell, camera, and motors. The machine learning algorithm like a support vector machine has been employed to predict the type of fruit as per the requirements of the user. The insertion of intelligence like machine learning algorithms in the vending machine is comparatively providing better performance. The long-term objective is to equip a vending machine solution that is both affordable and efficient, therefore boosting the shopping experience of customers and increasing the need for widespread deployment of intelligence in smart vending machines.