Combatting a bloated, expensive and unsustainable smart fridge market by creating a smart system capable of completing all the tasks of a typical smart fridge and more for a fraction of the cost of a typical system.
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Chilleye™
Innovation Fest 2025
About Chilleye™
UN SUSTAINABILITY DEVELOPMENT GOALS
Empowered and Driven:
Delivering Solutions for Global Issues
Goal 2 – No Hunger
The ChillEye System will allow for a database of food items to be input, allowing for the user to track the expiration dates of food stuffs put into the fridge, by a manual entry of the date, or by an estimation of when the item was inputted, reducing the waste of food, promoting the no hunger goal. It also allows for the tracking of temperature and humidity tracking, tracking the rate at which food can be expected to go off.
Goal 3 – Good Health and Wellbeing
The ChillEye system will feature an Artificial Intelligence, allowing for the user to curate their eating habits and create healthy and interesting recipes, promoting a healthier and more varied diet and offering better nutritional meal suggestions. The system’s inclusion of expiration tracking allows for the users to prevent the consumption of expired or spoiled foods, promoting a healthier and safer consumption of food. The System will also implement the OpenFoodFacts API, allowing for the tracking of nutrients and calories to better curate diets, and promoting a healthier lifestyle.
Goal 12 – Responsible Consumption and Production
Promotion of expiration dates and tracking of temperature and humidity allows for a user to be on top of the food within their fridge and allows for the opportunity to make better choices while purchasing food, guiding informed decisions and reduction of unnecessary purchases, saving money and living more sustainably. The fridge will allow for the user to remotely access the web panel, reducing the need to open the fridge, instead being able to inventory food on a mobile device or the external display, saving electricity being wasted by opening the fridge, also linking into Goal 13 – Climate Action.
THE STORY BEGAN
DESIGN STORY
Challenges
Combatting a bloated, expensive and unsustainable smart fridge market, with a lacklustre feature set for the cost price.
Solution
The system is a low cost alternative to traditional ‘Built-In’ smart fridge systems from companies such as LG and Samsung, while offering a user more freedom to use the system how they wish, introducing a range of features to make using the fridge more efficient and rewarding and saving money and food waste.
Use Case
Allows for a user to curate their smart fridge experience, allowing remote monitoring of their fridge, receiving reminders of food expirations, recipe ideation, food tracking, nutritional tracking and many more features!
THE PROCESS
PROTOTYPE DESIGN
A physical Fridge will be fitted with a moving camera system, connected to a Raspberry Pie Single Board Computer, allowing for data processing and transmission. Connected using Stepper Motors allowing for movement along the inside of the fridge door to detect food items within the fridge, and scan barcodes upon items. This barcode information will be cross referenced against the OpenFoodFacts API, allowing for nutritional data, and item information to be stored. The fridge will be able to communicate with an LLM to offer nutritional information, recipe ideas and communicate with the user.
Online Marketing
Creative agency
Web development
PLEDGE
Impact on the market
Enables the average user to branch into the smart fridge space without breaking the bank, It is not horrendously expensive like the competition
RESULTS
FINAL PRODUCT
the process was ensuring that the fridge is suitable, then making sure that the baseline hardware is appropriate for what we plan to do with it, we then visualised this in 3d animation software such as blender, this enabled us to get a clearer picture of the design and the tasks we needed to complete in order to create the MVP, the main task was optimising what hardware to use such as motors, belts and how to keep the structural integrity of the fridge intact.