ECE 110/120 Honors Lab Section : Smart Jar

Aditya Singla- asingla4 - ECE 120

Siddhant Singh- ss59- ECE 120

Pakhi Gupta - pakhig2 - ECE 120

1. Introduction
   1. Statement of Purpose: The smart jar is a smart kitchen appliance which informs the user of depleting ingredients in the kitchen. This appliance is useful for those consumers who belong to the working class and enjoy cooking as well. These consumers do not have a lot of time to worry about how much salt they have in their house, hence this will be useful for them. This product uses seamless connection between hardware and a phone application to inform the user and gives them an option to purchase the said ingredient online, or guide them to the closest grocery store.
   2. Background Research: To make this project, we have come to the conclusion that we will end a compact hardware housed on the cap of the jar which will be connected through WiFi to the application on the phone. The ultrasonic sensors provide the perfect tool to judge the depth of an ingredient left in the jar which will be computed using the arduino and thus relayed onto the application on the phone. We are driven to work on this project because we have all experienced times when our parents couldn't cook us our favorite meals because of a missing ingredients in the house.
      
      
2. Design Details
   1. Block Diagram: 
   2. System Overview: 
      1. Ultrasonic Sensor: The sensor will be used to detect the amount of ingredient remaining in the jar.
      2. Cell: It will be used to power the arduino.
      3. Arduino: It will be used to process all the data from the ultrasonic sensor and it will also be used to add WiFi capability and thus relay the hardware and the software/
      4. 3D Printed Housing: It will be used to conceal the hardware
         
      5. LEDs: An array of LED's attached on the cap of the jar to indicate the fullness of the jar. We will use logic gates to to switch on the array of LED's by switching on all four LEDs if it is full, 3 LEDs if it is 75% full, etc.
3. Parts
   1. Arduino
   2. Ultrasonic Sensor
   3. Battery
   4. 3D Housing
   5. Jar
   6. LED
   7. Logic Gates
      
      
4. Possible Challenges
   1. Making a compact housing that fits and looks aesthetic on the cap of the jar
   2. Making the application from scratch and syncing all the data through, possibly creating and storing data into a database can be tricky.
      
      
5. References