Inventorious --- A Real-Time Grocery Shelf Manager

The Project

To tackle the problem of food waste, I aimed to help the suppliers, one of the main contributors, by increasing the transparency of grocery inventory. Therefore, I created this mobile application as a platform where consumers can share real-time updates of shelf stocks for others, who can then plan their shopping and obtain items from other sources. More importantly, supermarket managers can have a better idea of the demand for different products at their location and accordingly adjust their imports. With these effects, the app promotes utilization of food resources and minimizes products that serve no use. The app is composed of two main pages, a store pages, where users can navigate through a store for food items, and a wishlist page, where suppliers can plan out their imports and consumers can plan out their shopping. A key feature of this app is the implementation of computer vision, which can be activated through the camera. As a user takes a photo of the shelf, the model identifies and counts the items in the photo for the user to update supermarket stock information with. The project used Dart, a programming language, Roboflow, YoloV5, and Firebase in the development process.

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