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43 Kitchen Dry Ingredient Tracker
 Anju Jain
Nynika Badam
Sanjana Kumar
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**Kitchen Dry Ingredient Tracker**

Team Members:
- Anju Jain (anjuyj2)
- Nynika Badam (nbadam2)
- Sanjana Kumar (spkumar4)

**Problem**

In our day to day lives, it's hard to keep track of ingredients in our kitchen and make sure we replenish it often. In order to remedy this, we propose a kitchen dry ingredient tracker.

**Solution**

Our system is designed to track and communicate with users about their ingredient necessities. Each individual ingredient tracker can be tailored to different lower weight threshold measurements.
Our system will use an app to maintain a digital grocery list. If an ingredient is running low, our system will add the ingredient to a digital grocery list. We also will have the option of adding the ingredient to the user's choice of online shopping cart. Users can remove ingredients' names from the list after purchase. ​​If a user is outside and is close to a grocery store (500 m), mobile app notification will be sent to the user's phone to notify them about necessary ingredient/s.

**Solution Components**

## Subsystem 1: LED
LED lights are placed at each ingredient and will light up when a certain percentage of total ingredients are low to indicate a more urgent grocery run.
Components: LEDs (from previous semester lab kits) or LED strip (12V-NB-CW-01M), LED Driver

## Subsystem 2: Weight Sensor
Our system will have 3 weight sensors to track 3 different ingredients. This can be extended for a system with more ingredients.
Each weight sensor will have a button to indicate if that weight sensor is active.
The weight sensor will be used to make sure the dry ingredient has not gone below the minimum weight limit.
Components: weight sensor Alpha (Taiwan) MF01A-N-221-A05, button (from previous lab kits)

## Subsystem 3: Microcontroller
Our system will be powered by plugging the microcontroller to the wall.
It will keep constant track of weight fluctuations for ingredients and send the data to the app.
It will be responsible for controlling individual ingredient’s LEDs.
Components: Microcontroller

## Subsystem 4: App
We will build an Apple based mobile app to provide connectivity between the user and the system.
User specifies which weight sensor station corresponds to what ingredient and its lower weight threshold (grams).
The app will maintain a digital grocery list.
If an ingredient is running low, our system will add the ingredient to a digital grocery list.
We also will have the option of adding the ingredient to the user's choice of online shopping cart.
Users can remove ingredients' names from the list after purchase.
​​If a user is outside and is close to a grocery store (500 m), mobile app notification will be sent to the user's phone to notify them about necessary ingredient/s.

# Criterion For Success
1. System should be able to measure changes in ingredient weights
- Add/Remove ingredient from grocery list/ online store shopping cart
2. Indicate when an ingredient needs replenishing through app
- mobile app should add ingredient name to digital shopping list
- Or add ingredient to an online store shopping cart
3. When many ingredients (2 out of 3) are low, LED lights should turn on around these ingredients
4. If the user’s phone is 500 m or less from a grocery store, mobile app should send reminder to visit the store if there are ingredients in the digital grocery list (if the user chose not to go the online shopping route)

S.I.P. (Smart Irrigation Project)

Jackson Lenz, James McMahon

S.I.P. (Smart Irrigation Project)

Featured Project

Jackson Lenz

James McMahon

Our project is to be a reliable, robust, and intelligent irrigation controller for use in areas where reliable weather prediction, water supply, and power supply are not found.

Upon completion of the project, our device will be able to determine the moisture level of the soil, the water level in a water tank, and the temperature, humidity, insolation, and barometric pressure of the environment. It will perform some processing on the observed environmental factors to determine if rain can be expected soon, Comparing this knowledge to the dampness of the soil and the amount of water in reserves will either trigger a command to begin irrigation or maintain a command to not irrigate the fields. This device will allow farmers to make much more efficient use of precious water and also avoid dehydrating crops to death.

In developing nations, power is also of concern because it is not as readily available as power here in the United States. For that reason, our device will incorporate several amp-hours of energy storage in the form of rechargeable, maintenance-free, lead acid batteries. These batteries will charge while power is available from the grid and discharge when power is no longer available. This will allow for uninterrupted control of irrigation. When power is available from the grid, our device will be powered by the grid. At other times, the batteries will supply the required power.

The project is titled S.I.P. because it will reduce water wasted and will be very power efficient (by extremely conservative estimates, able to run for 70 hours without input from the grid), thus sipping on both power and water.

We welcome all questions and comments regarding our project in its current form.

Thank you all very much for you time and consideration!