ERINOKS: EneRgy-Efficient INduction-Based Food Processing for Optimized KitchenS

The new Industry 4.0 era has opened a new gateway having the capacity to be applied in gastronomy sector in order to provide clever solutions to its critical challenges or emerging needs like: Energy consumption; Process optimization; Healthy and personalized nutrition; and Effective maintenance and refinement of entire portfolio of gastronomic services. The proposed food technology, which is mainly based on so-called magnetic induction, is enabled as an embedded solution. The holistic solution, namely ERINOKS, has an Internet-of-Things (IoT) background enabling distributed and connected food processes, adaptive power control according to the amount of food (by weight control) and a recommendation system for effective nutrition of individuals or group of people having special preferences. ERINOKS supports statistical methods like bootstrapping to analyze the parameters affecting the food processes and energy efficiency. Such a statistical analysis can be used to model the food consumption rates according to age, gender, origin, daily or seasonal factors and individual preferences or health status. ERINOKS utilizes a virtual assistant simulating food preparation steps or just for sharing information about ingredients for the use of cookers and consumers, i.e. selecting or cooking the healthiest food.