Smart refrigerator

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LG Smart Refrigerator at CES 2011

A smart refrigerator is a refrigerator that is able to communicate with the internet. [1] This kind of refrigerator is often designed to automatically determine when particular food items need to be replenished. [2]

Contents

This functionality is partly managed by human involvement, [3] [ clarification needed ] but proposed future iterations of the technology incorporate inventory tracking for all items inside, along with a seamless payment system. This capability would involve connecting the refrigerator to an online retail store, ensuring a consistently stocked refrigerator at home for domestic use. For commercial use, additional features such as payment terminals and locks could be incorporated to manage tasks like unattended retail.[ citation needed ]

History

By the late 1990s and the early 2000s, the idea of connecting home appliances to the Internet (Internet of Things) had been popularized and was seen as the "next big thing". [4] The proposed idea of a smart fridge that could keep track of its contents with "a bar-code reader within the fridge" had become popular in various technology newspapers. [5] In June 2000, LG launched the first internet refrigerator, the Internet Digital DIOS. This refrigerator was unsuccessful because consumers saw it as unnecessary and, at over $20,000, too expensive. [6] <[ unreliable source? ]

Controversy

Security

In 2000, Russian anti-virus company Kaspersky Lab warned that in a few years Internet-connected refrigerators and other household appliances might be targets of net viruses or trojans in a publication: Internet Security: Emerging Threats and Challenges (Adamov, Alexander; A, Milan). [7] Examples included attacks that could make the refrigerator door swing open in the middle of the night. [8] In January 2014, the California security firm Proofpoint, Inc. announced that it had discovered a large "botnet" which infected an internet-connected refrigerator, as well as other home appliances, and then delivered more than 750,000 malicious emails. [9] In August 2015, security company Pen Test Partners discovered a vulnerability in the internet-connected refrigerator Samsung model RF28HMELBSR that could be exploited to steal Gmail users' login credentials. [10]

Support

In late 2014, several owners of Internet-connected Samsung refrigerators complained that they could not log into their Google Calendar accounts, after Google had discontinued the calendar API earlier in the year and Samsung failed to push a software update for the refrigerator. [11] [12]

Examples

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Internet refrigerator as seen in the science fiction film The 6th Day

References

  1. ↑ "You Still Probably Shouldn't Buy a Smart Fridge". Review Geek. 27 January 2020. Retrieved 22 December 2020.
  2. ↑ "New technologies in refrigerators iPhone Apps". Maple Leaf Appliance Repair Calgary. 17 March 2022. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
  3. ↑ "What Is so Smart About a Smart Fridge?". Lifewire. Retrieved 6 March 2025.
  4. ↑ Foote, Keith D. (17 December 2021). "A Brief History of Cloud Computing". Dataversity. Archived from the original on 22 August 2022. Retrieved 22 August 2022.
  5. ↑ Milan A, Smart Fridge Professor. "The Deseret News - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Retrieved 6 March 2025.
  6. ↑ Mahajan, Mukesh P.; Nikam, Rohit R.; Patil, Vivek P.; Dond, Rahul D. (2017). "Smart Refrigerator Using IOT" (PDF). International Journal of Latest Engineering Research and Applications . 2 (3). Nashik, India: 6. ISSN   2455-7137 . Retrieved 22 August 2022– via Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering.
  7. ↑ Adamov, Alexander; Hahanov, Vladimir; A, Milan (September 2000). "Internet Security: Emerging Threats and Challenges". 2000 East-West Design & Test Symposium. IEEE: 425–427. doi:10.1109/ewdts.2010.5742118.
  8. ↑ Harrison, Linda (21 June 2000). "Fridges to be hit by Net viruses". The Register . Retrieved 23 October 2016.
  9. ↑ "Fridge sends spam emails as attack hits smart gadgets". BBC News . 17 January 2014. Retrieved 23 October 2016.
  10. ↑ Neagle, Colin (26 August 2015). "Smart refrigerator hack exposes Gmail account credentials". Network World. Retrieved 23 October 2016.
  11. ↑ Limer, Eric (9 December 2015). "Hilarious Tech Support Thread Reveals the True Horror of a Smart Home". Popular Mechanics. Retrieved 23 October 2016.
  12. ↑ Franceschi-Bicchierai, Lorenzo (11 December 2015). "Smart Fridge Only Capable of Displaying Buggy Future of the Internet of Things". Motherboard. Retrieved 23 October 2016.
  13. ↑ Henderson, Odie (4 June 2017). "Silicon Valley Recap: The Price of Dignity". Vulture. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
  14. ↑ Henderson, Odie (25 June 2017). "Silicon Valley Season-Finale Recap: Servers Have Souls Too". Vulture. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
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