Food Waste Android

Abstract:

An intelligent logistics system is an important branch of intelligent transportation

systems. It is a great challenge to develop efficient technologies and methodologies
to improve its performance in meeting customer requirements while this is highly
related to people’s life quality. Its high efficiency can reduce food waste, improve
food quality and safety, and enhance the competitiveness of food companies. In
this paper, we investigate a new integrated planning problem for intelligent food
logistics systems.An important goal in our world today is to eliminate food waste
by re utilizing available food sources within local communities: leftover food items
in restaurants, stores and food distribution centers that may be approaching
expiration; and any perishable items not used in entirety within their desired
period. This is highly significant, particularly during crises such as the COVID-19
pandemic. This paper focuses on creating an interesting mobile application (app)
that provides a ubiquitous platform wherein users can visualize available food
resources in their local area and consequently gain access to food, thereby tackling
two major issues, i.e. hunger and food waste.
Introduction

An important goal in our world today is to eliminate food waste by reutilizing

available food sources within local communities: leftover food items in restaurants,
stores and food distribution centers that may be approaching expiration; and any
perishable items not used in entirety within their desired period. This is highly
significant, particularly during crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper
focuses on creating an interesting mobile application (app) called SeVa that
provides a ubiquitous platform wherein users can visualize available food
resources in their local area and consequently gain access to food, thereby tackling
two major issues, i.e. hunger and food waste. This app is pertinent to the UN SDGs
(United Nations Sustainable Development Goals) and fits the general realm of AI
for Smart Living in Smart Cities. In addition to entailing IoT (Internet of Things)
and ubiquitous computing, this work makes positive impacts on both healthcare
and environment by reducing hunger and food waste respectively. We describe our
SeVa app development using principles from AI, and especially HCI (Human
Computer Interaction), along with its evaluation encompassing user surveys. We
also list some open issues with the scope for future work.
Motivation

Consumers are motivated to reduce food waste, it may result in less food waste.
According to this study, the most motivating factor was the opportunity to save
money (66 percent). Consumers are motivated to change their behavior and help
improve the environment if they can save money at the same time.

The main benefit of E-prescribing for patients is the guarantee of therapy

management process safety. E-Prescribing can minimalize medication error risk
and adverse drug events resulted from manual/handwritten prescribing error and
further improve patient safety and quality of care
Problem Statement

Food loss and waste is food that is not eaten. The causes of food waste or loss are
numerous and occur throughout the food system, during production, processing,
distribution, retail and food service sales, and consumption. Overall, about one-
third of the world’s food is thrown away.

Globally, almost 250km3 of water and 1.4 billion hectares of land are
devoted to producing food that is lost or wasted. According to Food and
Agriculture Organisation (FAO), every year around 1.7 billion tonnes, or
almost one third of food produced for human consumption, are lost or
wasted globally.
Application System

This android-based Food Waste Management system can assist in collecting the
leftover food from hotels & restaurants to distribute among those in need. NGOs
that are helping poor communities to battle against starvation & malnutrition can
raise a request for food supply from restaurants through this application. Once the
request is accepted, the NGOs can collect the food from the restaurants for its
distribution. In this way this android-based food waste management system will
help restaurants to reduce food waste and will help in feeding the poor and needy
people.
System Architecture:
Literature Survey

Sr.n Paper Name Author Description

o Name
1 Using Blockchain in Florentina This article proposes the use of Blockchain by small
the agri-food sector Magda farmers in the agrifood sector. The registers of
following SARS-CoV- Enescu,Valeriu accounts and transactions stored by each
2 pandemic. Manuel Ionescu. participating partner, made through Blockchain,
allow keeping secure information about the status of
farms, contracts and product stocks. This ensures
the creation of credible supply chains for both the
producer and the consumer. Intelligent contracts are
made that can guarantee timely payments between
the parties while modifying the data in the
distributed databases. The research conducted in
our study found that, usually, the marketing of small
farmers’ products is done in the arranged spaces
(agri food markets) or are taken over by
intermediaries to be marketed. All these processes
have the effect of increasing the prices borne by the
consumer, but not only. During critical emergency
periods, such as 2020 SARS-CoV-2, many farmers
were left with unseen products. In support of
producers and consumers; it is proposed to use the
new blockchain system. This system achieves
transparency, security and trust in the trading
process. Although the blockchain system is at the
beginning of the road, it can successfully achieve all
these problems, so that small farmers can sell the
products in periods with restrictions or not, to
consumers, safely and at lower prices (directly from
the manufacturer).The process can be applied in a
region, state and even globally.
2 Agriculture 4.0: Angelo Corallo, :In recent years, the world assists to the fourth
How Use Maria Elena Industrial Revolution, also called Industry 4.0, that
Traceability Data to Latino, Marta leads to a higher level of connectivity, automation
Tell Food Product to Menegoli and efficiency. That evolution concerns, first of all,
the Consumers the manufacturing sector, arriving, only in the last
years, within agri-food industry. In order to increase
the own transparency/accountability, food industry
starts to consider traceability principles as guaranty
 and marketing tool. A traceability system, based on
Industry 4.0 technologies, could support the food
companies to maneuver in the complex network of
the supply chain. The presence of different activities
and actors, supply a huge number of data that not
are totally showed to the final consumer or that are
shown in an unintelligible mode. So, monitoring the
supply chain, recovering all essential data regarding
products and processes, elaborating data supplying
to consumers intelligible information could be a
winner strategy. The work proposes a logical model
to collect food traceability data along the supply
chain and to transform it in intelligible information
useful to reach modern consumers. The logical
model was applied in a case study: the olive
production. Food companies can apply this strategy
byleveraging on the Industry 4.0 paradigm,
performing the real Agriculture 4.0 evolution.
3 An Agri-food Supply Feng Tian For the past few years, food safety has become an
Chain Traceability outstanding problem in China. Since traditional agri-
System for China food logistics pattern can not match the demands of
Based on RFID Block the market anymore, building an agri-food supply
chain Technology chain traceability system is becoming more and
more urgent. In this paper, we study the utilization
and development situation of RFID (Radio-Frequency
IDentification) and blockchain technology first, and
then we analyze the advantages and disadvantages
of using RFID and blockchain technology in building
the agri-food supply chain traceability system;
finally, we demonstrate the building process of this
system. It can realize the traceability with trusted
information in the entire agri-food supply chain,
which would effectively guarantee the food safety,
by gathering, transferring and sharing the authentic
data of agri-food in production, processing,
warehousing, distribution and selling links.
4 AGRI SUCCOR : Mrs. J. India is an agricultural country with the staple food
Mobile Application Jayachitra, M. being rice and wheat. The farmers serve as a
for Agriculture Madhu2 , S.D. backbone to our nation. But, the livelihoods of the
Shaik agriculturists are at stake. They incur heavy losses
Mohammed due to crop failure and natural calamities. The
Faruk emerging technology has provided many solutions to
upgrade their lifestyle, but still there are challenges.
Our main motive is to design a farmer friendly
applicationAgri Succor to sell their commodities
directly to the customers at a reasonable market
value without any mediator with the help of
volunteers. For the efficient utilization of our mobile
 application by the farmers, we have incorporated
features like information in regional language, crop-
disease identification and sell their products directly.
This application will emerge out as an essential
productivity tool for the farmers if implemented in
future.
5 Android App to Mr. Pranav Mobile internet will help the farmers to sell their
Connect Farmers to Shriram,Mr. products directly to consumers and food processing
Retailers and Food Sunil Mhamane industries. This paper provides market information
Processing Industry to a farmer using its easy interface on the mobile
application. The mobile application is intended to be
used for fast and updated information delivering
system for farmers. Also, it has native language
support to make the transaction easy for farmers.
The mobile application treats farmers as a seller and
a buyer. The intention behind this paper is to help
farmers so they buy or sell their agriculture goods
and products. Market prices provided by data.gov.in
lets the system to keep the selling and buying prices
in control. As the products are to be browsed and
there may be plenty of products for the user. To
make browsing easy many filters can provide.
Farmers face many problems while selling their
goods and products, this system promises to provide
an easy and recreational way to sell the products.
The system lets the farmers to sell goods at a
reasonable price and makes business even fair and
transparent. Consumers are the opposite side of the
same coin.This system lets consumer to choose from
a wide variety of products, select the product as per
their requirement and also to apply price filters.
Location is a one of parameter for consumer and
producer while selling or buying their product it will
helps the user to get the product nearby their
location. The basic objective of the system is to
considers every one need and full fills their
requirement with fair and transparent agriculture
business
• Hardware Requirements:

• System : Intel I3 Processor.

• Hard Disk : 20 GB.

• Monitor : 15 VGA Colour.

• Mouse : Logitech.

• Ram : 4 GB

• Software Requirements:

• Operating system : Windows 7 and above.

• Backend : Kotlin

• Frontend : XML

• IDE : Android Studio

• Database : Firebase
Future Scope

As per the present reports, it is estimated that 1.3 billion tonnes of food per year
are wasted or discarded, causing 750 million Dollars’ worth of economic and
environmental loss. This wastage has also been linked to the increasing food
shortages in developing or underdeveloped countries. When thrown away in the
landfills, this waste food causes the release of many toxic gasses that are classified
as greenhouse gases, leading to global warming and Air Pollution.

Nowadays, when every type of waste is encouraged to be recycled and have a

proper management system in place, including plastic waste and e-Waste, Food
waste management is ignored due to the misconception surrounding the
biodegradable properties of food and the fact that it decomposes itself in spite of
the fact that, that process takes a lot of time and causes pollution. Therefore, it is
very important to set up a proper Food Waste management system in place.
Conclusion

The sustenance approach serves to stay away from crevice between the NGO and
Donor. The approach serves to give the sustenance waste to the penniless
individuals who are battling for nourishment. The approach unite these two, in
such a route, to the point that these NGOs can persuade the ”nourishment to be
squandered” without bother, and the inns/eateries/party-lobbies discover these
sustenance seekers with no additional exertion then it will serve a more noteworthy
cause and will be an enormous administration to mankind.
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