We conducted an initial survey to see what people thought about the idea of an intelligent fridge and what kind of features they would like to see in it.
So far, the main complaints that those who responded to the questionnaire had were that their fridge was not big enough (or had space for a certain shape of product) and that their food tended to freeze. These two points can sometimes be related – if the fridge is overstocked with food, items can freeze because there is not enough empty space to allow cold air in the fridge to circulate. Another complaint was that it was sometimes difficult to tell what was in the fridge – especially a problem for very full fridges, and things that were forgotten about because they were not easy to see often went “off”.
More on this questionnaire later.