The question is, what are we going to use to integrate the distribution of food in our smart grid? And the answer to this quiestion is: the SMART FRIDGE.
We are going to be able to change the model we use to distribute food. Now, we can consider that we have a descentralized model in which everyone of us need to go to the supermarket to get food. By integrating the smart fridge into the smart grid, we can have a distributed system without hiercachies in which everyone of us are equal.
So the smart grid is not only going to automate the process of selling and distributing food, it is algo going to make a direct link between producers and consumers. This is going to allow us to have a fair trade-off between us (as consumers) and them (as producers). This fact leds into a more sustainable society.
By 2050, we are going to be able to have all of this if we wish. Only we have to add a computer processing unit and a display to the fridges we already have and we can improve the way we distribute and buy food. Moreover this is real, and we are actually developing. Our challenge is to bring it to the society and integrate it in our lives.
But, what can this smart fridge do for us? Let's have a look at it...
We can introduce food and drinks (apples, milk, beer, etc) we usually consume and the fridge will be automatically able to provide those goods to us. Also it will track the amount of stock it has of all those products and when we are close to be run out of them it will request some more to our sources. But, what happens if we want to eat a lobster tomorrow? We can request to our fridge and it will ask for having a lobster for us by tomorrow.
Also, it is a good idea to get some advices from our fridge in order to have a healthy feeding.
Furthermore, we have had to deal with the problem of having a emergency stock of food. As we all are lazy guys, we can order the food to take care of it and forget about it. And we can also send some information to the fridge and it will be able to predict some complicated situations (like a strike in transport for example) and increase the amount of emergency stock we have stored. As it is a very important part of our project, we are going have a deeper reflection about it in other article.
