Stock alert inventory system management
Abstract : With the advancement of information and communication technology, life is getting simpler in all aspects. The rapid increase in the number of users on the internet over the past decade has made the internet as a part of human life. Home Automation using the Internet of Things (IoT) is a system that uses a smartphone device or pc to control basic home functions with the help of sensors connected to the internet and features automatically through internet from anywhere around the world. In this paper, we present an efficient system for managing the kitchen inventory. By implementing Inventory System we can always have real-time values and records of our grocery stocks. And we don’t have to memorize grocery stocks the way we did it by traditional ways. The idea utilizes the load cell and HX711 load cell amplifier interfaced with NodeMCU, to measure grocery container value and see this data in the user’s smartphone or pc with the help of cloud service.
? Existing inventory management also does not provide any means in detecting expired date for food based products such as milk, bread, flour and etc.
? Basic information about existing Sales and Inventory System and how to develop inventory tracking system in general.
? The major problem of the store is they do not have proper inventory control system in guiding and managing their sale and inventory level of the store.
? In developing the system, phase development prototype is chosen. This methodology wii perform the development stage in according to modules underlines in the scope of the project.
? To manage grocery stockings these days is very hard especially with a busy schedule.
? The traditional system involves manual tracking of grocery items which results in visiting departmental stores several times a month for buying grocery items.
? For the whole family to manage grocery stocks manually is even more tedious.
? In this system weight of grocery container will be displayed on the user’s smartphone and if the weight goes below threshold value it will send notification of stock replenishment.
• When we place a grocery container on the top of the Load cell, deformation of resistance of Load cell takes place.
• Change in resistance provides an electrical value change. So Load cell measures the weight of the grocery container in analog format.
• We are sending our load cell data over Thingspeak cloud service. So we are seeing the weight of our grocery container in Thingspeak cloud service.
• We can also send our load cell data to Blynk cloud for displaying our grocery container weight in Blynk application.
• And if the value of a grocery container goes below a threshold value than Blynk application will notify users by sending a notification in the user’s smartphone.
? The data used in the improvement of this endeavor work will be accumulated from various levels of organization in the conveyance, utilizing review.
? The advantage of phased development- based methodologies of quickly getting a useful system into the hands of users provides business value sooner to the user.
? The performances of the store is viewed in a very simple ways by ignoring other important aspects does not give them a clear vision in expanding the business further.
? They also strongly agree on the performance of the system as in reducing the time of processing the sale at the counter.
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