re: The Internet of Things...

Posted on 10/1/14 at 10:57 am to Dijkstra

Posted by CAD703X

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Posted on 10/1/14 at 10:57 am to Dijkstra

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Dijkstra

like your style. i have had so many ideas over the years too (i'm a developer) and bang my head when i see someone else capitalize on what seems to be the most trivial ideas.

dij; i think you're on to something. the smartfridge market is untapped mainly because no one is paying $4k for a stupid overpriced LG fridge with WiFi and shitty software.

no, you need to figure out a way to do this from a smartphone and a regular fridge.

i dont know what that looks like but i see it coming.

maybe something as dumb as a plastic template you roll out on each shelf of your fridge indicating placement of milk, etc. then later you can take a pic with your 'fridge app' of the inside of the fridge and based on a baseline of items in certain locations, you immediately get an 'inventory' of missing items.

i dont know..just talking shite out of my head but SOMEONE is going to find a way to make grocery shopping more efficient and i don't think its going to work if you have to spend $$$ on some stupid arse fridge with shitty firmware to make it happen.

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Posted by Dijkstra

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Posted on 10/1/14 at 11:09 am to CAD703X

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no, you need to figure out a way to do this from a smartphone and a regular fridge.

With NFC being added to phones every day, it isn't really that difficult. What would cause issues would be finding a decent way to tag the items since they're not already tagged. The biggest issue with the whole thing is how the items being entered are input. Typing it's a pain in the arse until you get most of your "regular items" in. If companies would integrate NFC tags into their products, it'd be as easy as building a simple app to read them and keep track of activity. The business card app I mentioned took maybe 12-14 hours, and that's with an hour or two of issues with the test device. In that time, I got functionality to read and write NFC tags with business card information and phone-to-phone NFC worked, as well, in case you didn't have a tag on you. Just tap and you're done. They're dirt cheap, but writing NFC tags for every single item is worse than typing it is. Figure out an easy way to tag them, and I'll get you in on this one, haha.

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