• DocumentCode
    3161525
  • 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
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    20-22 Aug. 2008
  • Firstpage
    3065
  • Lastpage
    3069
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    SICE Annual Conference, 2008
  • Conference_Location
    Tokyo
  • Print_ISBN
    978-4-907764-30-2
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-4-907764-29-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/SICE.2008.4655190
  • Filename
    4655190