IoT-aided charity: an excess food redistribution framework

© 2018 IEEE. A trusted and active community aided and supported by the Internet of Things (IoT) is a key factor in food waste reduction and management. This paper proposes an IoT based context aware framework which can capture real-time dynamic requirements of both vendors and consumers and perform real-time match-making based on captured data. We describe our proposed reference framework and the notion of smart food sharing containers as enabling technology in our framework. A prototype system demonstrates the feasibility of a proposed approach using a smart container with embedded sensors.