a consistently stocked refrigerator at home for domestic use. For commercial use, additional features such as payment terminals and locks could be incorporated to manage tasks like unattended retail.

History

By the late 1990s and the early 2000s, the idea of connecting home appliances to the Internet (Internet of Things) had been popularized and was seen as the "next big thing". The proposed idea of a smart fridge that could keep track of its contents with "a bar-code reader within

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