Introducing Innovative Item Management Process Towards Providing Smart Fridges

RFID technology is increasingly embedded in applications for serving end-users such as in smart homes. This paper focuses on using RFID for items tracking and management within smart fridges. We are proposing an innovative and practical process for managing smart fridges for the main objective of preventing waste of perishable food. The proposed process is not requiring any prior tagging of items which makes it closer to the current end-user habit. End-users are notified through alert messages every time they connect on the smart fridge Web application in order to consume identified items before it expires. Browsing as well as item searching (by keyword or by category) is provided to end-users. Additional features such as recipes suggestions and automatic ordering of grocery list were introduced for making hence item management and control of smart fridges more effective.