intrestin!

Bar codes are the past. Put an RFID detector at your door and it will scan everything going in and out. It will also tell you when your friends leave something behind them when leaving, or take away something that belongs to you ...
I'd call your project "Big Sister", something like that :-)

Thats cool!

there was an idea recently that was exactly the same as this!!

http://www.cambrianh...er/ideas-id/2PKoWEa/

its not a bad idea - I quite like the concept.

This is over complicated...

I need to scan my toilet paper when it comes in the house then I need to scan it again when I'm finished...

I already have a hard time making a list on the fridge... let alone scan everything in the house coming in and going out.

Make it so it's transparent.. no effort on my part... then you mite have something.

And there is also an other idea like your on CH... with the same problem.

If you can fix it... you got the 1 million dollar home automation project...

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Maybe start more simply, for example, an online shopping list; Why? It's a pain re-writing a grocery list every week. This site would already have a check box list of items commonly purchased or you could add customized items. You should have the ability to select items that recur on a weekly or monthly basis. Of course you will need a Blackberry interface so you can add items when you're on the go. If you added a value to each of these items you would get the byproduct of knowing how much you're spending on groceries every week/month. Or what would really be neat is sending your list to an electronic grocer who fills and delivers you weekly order.

What about, a code that prints out all the info, on the store receipt. Then you just scan the code when you get home, and it automatically enters in all the products you bought, and quantity. Then you only scan it or "check it out", when you use it? Also, you wouldn't have to scan the toilet paper. But like when you get down to one roll, you put it on your list. I don't know, just thought. Sorry, I didnt know someone had already posted an idea like this one.

Goulu, I think you serious don't understand how RFID works. Every product that passes he detector needs to have an RFID sticker on it. At even 50c per RDIF, that will double the cost of my can of tuna! As for keeping inventory based on RFID or bar codes, most people wouldn't have the discipline for it.

I think home automation will be a market that continues to grow. Anything to make peoples life easier has a customer base. The trick is to make it easier, something my dad can learn easily...not an easy prospect.

Maybe, I could turn this project into a shopping list project, where you order at the nearest store's website. You select what you want and the quanity. Then it gives you your total and everything. Then someone at the store gathers your items, and all you have todo is go in, say you placed an order online, and they will carry it out out to your car. I will concentrate on my other home project, the one with the recipe datasbase, instead of this one. But let me know what you think of the online store. This is a summary of ChrisJ's comment, without the delivery part.

How about a smart online ordering system. When you first purchase a product, you specify an estimated usage, say, it takes me X days to finish a tube of toothpaste. When your estimated time is X days/hours, just before the product should be finished, you receive a reminder to check the product and confirm the order. When you confirm, the product is delivered to you. If however the product is not yet finished and you do not need to order, you decline the order. When the product is ordered again, the "usage time" is recorded and within a few orders, a general patter or "usage time" is calculated. The system then becomes more accurate. Also, perishables or products with an expiry date, will include a reminder when the product is no longer fresh or past the expiry date. This system is very manual, but cost effective.

A smart system could include a pressure sensitive pad in a fridge or cupboard, that identifies placement of a product, weighs it and calculates usage as well as monitoring temperatures of storage areas and calculates an expected time for product to stay fresh at X temperature and X humidity... but that's expensive and it might be "overkill"

One last thing, delivery would be structured in a way that not just one product is delivered at a time, accept by special request. System can also be set to make sure X amount of X product is always in the house. For example, "There should always be 6 rolls of toilet paper" so when the quantity reaches 6 and order is places to re-stock to 12.

this system can also be implemented in business, stock taking etc. if it has not yet been developed.

Yeah, but the question is if the stores would be willing to hire, delivery people. They would have to pay insurance, and gas on the cars, plus labor. I dont think most businesses would do that. Maybe, but I dont know. I went and talked to a couple grocery stores today, about this, saying if something like this was avaliable if they would be interested in using it for their store. I got Town & Country, Millers, and Freds saying they would be interested in something like this, so I think I'm gonna get started tonight on a little demo for the stores before I start a fullplegde project and have nothing to do with it. I'll keep yall posted.

ya, me again. You could start ,or offer the startup to someone interest, a company to handle all pickups and deliveries from the stores. Charging $X flat rate per delivery. This can be a localized business and splitting it up into geographical areas can turn it into a franchising opportunity. Don't know if such a delivery service has been established on a large scale in the US... I'm from SA :/

Excuse the typos :/