I came up with the idea of a Fridge Management System. We have all heard of those automated fridges of the future which order your shopping and even tell you which products are running low.
But is it a advantage having everything completely automated where the fridge even tells you if a product is about to finish and orders automatically a new one... ?
Do you even want a new one ? or was it just a one-off buy ? You do not want your fridge to re-order a £1000 canister of caviar automatically.. do you ?
How annoying is it going to be if the fridge notifies you whenever something is almost empty ? people have way too many miscellaneous things in their fridge for this to be a fully working automated system. As mentioned before a person would have to be very precise and systematic in what he or she stores in their fridge for the fridge to be able to differentiate what exactly is needed.
I think automating orders for products like this will never be fully functional in the way you want it to be. There are too many variables in play for this to be a full proof system. It could probably only work well if the shopper itself is very consistent in its shopping and does everything as the system requires him to do.
An advantage of this is that you could implant a intelligent comparison system that could offer you alternatives that might be available at other supermarkets or let you know if a particular supermarket has a offer on that item.
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