Title :
Smart tupperware: Active containers for kitchen automation
Author :
Voyles, Richard ; Bae, Jaewook ; Smith, Bret ; Kusuma, David ; Nguyen, Ledu
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Denver, Denver, CO
Abstract :
Smart Tupperware is an example of a personal task assistant (PTA) for kitchen automation. The system is intended to automatically maintain inventory status of kitchen foodstuffs for the purpose of updating the userpsilas shopping list. A variety of system configurations were investigated ranging from an active system with microcontroller-based kitchen containers instrumented with sensors to passive systems with only identification tagging on the containers. A base station provides network connectivity if the application warrants.
Keywords :
domestic appliances; home computing; microcontrollers; Smart Tupperware; kitchen automation; microcontroller-based kitchen container; personal task assistant; Application software; Base stations; Computer industry; Containers; Design automation; Distributed databases; Instruments; Internet; Radiofrequency identification; User interfaces;
Conference_Titel :
SICE Annual Conference, 2008
Conference_Location :
Tokyo
Print_ISBN :
978-4-907764-30-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-4-907764-29-6
DOI :
10.1109/SICE.2008.4655190
