Expense. House. Expense accommodation. Then everything else. A life to navigate, meals to put together, times designed to cook a dinner that are halved after being late for work. In the end that basket of fresh carrots used as a side dish it has become a agglomeration of mould good for a biology laboratory.
Well. After having colonized PCs and telephones, the artificial intelligence algorithms they also started arriving in the home appliances. In refrigerators, one of the first fields of experimentation concerns food. And specifically the checking expiration dates of foods. A check that takes place in two phases.
How refrigerators understand what’s in front of them
Technologies change depending on the model. There is one hardware partbasically made up of cameras and sensors that have to analyze food as it enters the fridge and there is software partwhich connects all the data obtained from the sensors to understand what foods they are and above all when they expire.
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Artificial intelligence algorithms enter precisely this step, as he explains Daniele PuglieseHead of Cooling at Haier Europe: “Artificial intelligence is a fundamental tool for making conservation technology perfect. Thanks to artificial intelligence we can have a complete control cycle about everything that happens inside the refrigerator”.
Algorithms and food preservation
Once we understand what type of food we have in front of us, two problems remain: how to remember it And how to store it. The answer to the first point is quite simple. Just remember it from the app connected to the refrigerator. Daniele Pugliese always explains:
“If the food is expiring, an alarm is also sent the next day saying: “Please eat it because otherwise it will expire”. We thought of it in a very simple way to understand. You don’t have to think about the date”.
The second point, more complex, concerns how the refrigerator adjusts the temperature based on the food you are storing. This parameter varies based on the model of refrigerator we have and the work done on the compartments. By combining all these systems it is possible take food preservation a long way forward:
“We thought of a special drawer called Nutri Bank which can achieve perfect preservation, therefore without odors. In this way the preservation of proteins such as meat or fish can reach 10 days”.
