EFRESH – A DEVICE TO DETECT FOOD FRESHNESS

ABSTRACT-

The food we consumes provide nourishment and gives energy to our body, it

gives us the ability to do daily activities and help improves our health in direct as

well as indirect ways. A healthy and fresh diet is the most important way to keep

ourselves fit. The food items kept at room temperature undergo rapid bacterial

growth and chemical changes in food. Taking unhealthy food leads to bad health,

and can cause different food borne diseases. The purpose to use biosensor and

electrical sensors is to determine the freshness of food. A smart system which can

detect the freshness of household food like dairy items, meat, and fruits. The

identification and selection of pH sensor, Moisture sensor, and Gas sensor to

develop a smart food freshness detector ensures the freshness of food and tells

whether to eat it or bin it. An android application is developed to select the type of

food to be checked.
INTRODUCTION

The food we consume can affect in any form of contamination that may

occur due to storage or chemical changes within the food. There are several viruses

and bacteria that causes food contamination and leads to numerous food borne

diseases, for example Norovirus a very contagious virus caused by contaminated

food or water . About 351,000 people die of food poisoning globally every year. In

a country like Pakistan, majority of people struggles on daily basis for food, due to

preservation of foods and use of chemicals to artificially increase the time span of

food causes people illness. It is necessary to develop a system that can help people

to identify the freshness of food or quality of food items .Our proposed system may

give the good quality (freshness) management in food. It is based on electrical, and

biosensors. Biosensors play a vital role to detect the bacterial contamination in

food sample. Based on the combination of the sensor outputs quality of the food

should be detected.
BLOCK DIAGRAM

LCD DISPLAY

PH SENSOR ARDUINO IOT

GAS SENSOR

MOISTURE
SENSOR
HARDWARE SPECIFICATION

 MICRO CONTROLLER

 PH Sensor

 Gas Sensor

 Moisture Sensor

 LCD

SOFTWARESPECIFIACTION

1. EMBEDDED C COMPILER

2. Arduino

3. Php
SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE AND FUNCTIONAL LAYERS

MODULES

1.ARDUINO UNO

The Microcontroller used here is an Arduino UNO. The UNO is a Microcontroller board based on
ATMEGA 328P.

The ATMEGA 328P has 32kB of flash memory for storing code. The board has 14 digital input and output
pins, 6 analog inputs, 16 MHz quartz crystal, USB, an ICSP circuit and a reset button. The UNO can be
programmed with the Arduino software.
SENSORS

a sensor is a device, module, machine, or subsystem whose purpose is to detect events or changes
depends upon tranducer in its environment and send the information to other electronics, frequently a
microcontroller.A sensor is always used with other electronics.

ESP8266 WIFI

The ESP8266 arduino compatible module is a low-cost Wi-Fi chip with full TCP/IP capability, and the
amazing thing is that this little board has a MCU (Micro Controller Unit) integrated which gives the
possibility to control I/O digital pins via simple and almost pseudo-code like programming language. This
device is produced by Shanghai-based Chinese manufacturer, Espressif Systems.
IOT WORKING

1. COLLECT

SEND SENSOR DATA PRIVATELY TO THE CLOUD.

There are sensors all around—in our homes, smart phones, automobiles,

city infrastructure, and industrial equipment. Sensors detect and measure

information on all sorts of things like temperature, humidity, and pressure.

And they communicate that data in some form, such as a numerical value

or electrical signal.

1.1 WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO COLLECT DATA IN

THINGSPEAK?

Sensors, or things, sense data and typically act locally. ThingSpeak

enables sensors, instruments, and websites to send data to the cloud

where it is stored in either a private or a public channel. ThingSpeak stores

data in private channels by default, but public channels can be used to

share data with others. Once data is in a ThingSpeak channel, you can

analyze and visualize it, calculate new data, or interact with social media,

web services, and other devices. 

Storing data in the cloud provides easy access to your data. Using online

analytical tools, you can explore and visualize data. You can discover

relationships, patterns, and trends in data. You can calculate new data.

And you can visualize it in plots, charts, and gauges. Storing data in the

cloud provides easy access to your data. Using online analytical tools, you

can explore and visualize data. You can discover relationships, patterns,

and trends in data. You can calculate new data. And you can visualize it in

plots, charts, and gauges

2.3 WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO ANALYZE AND VISUALIZE

DATA IN THINGSPEAK?

Thingspeak Provides Access To Matlab To Help You Make Sense Of Data.

You Can:

 Convert, combine, and calculate new data

 Schedule calculations to run at certain times

 Visually understand relationships in data using built-in plotting

functions
  Combine data from multiple channels to build a more sophisticated

analysis

2. ACT

2.1 TRIGGER A REACTION.

Acting on data could be something as simple receiving a sensor (specified

in Block) from arduino and data send to web server via Wifi module.

WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO USE THINGSPEAK TO ACT ON

DATA?

Thingspeak Provides Tools That Enable Device Communication For All Of

These Actions And More. You Can:

 React to data—both raw data and new data that you calculate—as it

comes into a channel

 Queue up commands for a device to execute