An Autonomous Food Wastage Control Warehouse: Distributed Ledger and Machine Learning based Approach

Abstract

Food is an essential aspect of our lives. Back in those days, people consumed seasonal fruits and vegetables which were available locally and on a daily basis. But things have changed when refrigeration units were invented. People were now able to store and consume food products which were nonseasonal also. In today's world, warehouses and cold chains are of striking importance because most of the food products that we see in our supermarkets and grocery stores come from them. Due to improper management of food products these warehouses have become an epicenter for food wastage. Since most of the traditional warehouses are manual or RDBMS based, they can be easily tampered. With these considerations in this paper, we have proposed an autonomous warehouse system which will tackle food wastage by using Machine Learning and Blockchain technology.