IJCSNS International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security, VOL.18 No.5, May 2018 130 Manuscript received May 5, 2018 Manuscript revised May 20, 2018 Design of an Internet of Things (IoT) network system for Kitchen food waste management Diaa Salama Abdul Minaam 1† , Mohamed Abd-ELfattah 2† and Mona A. S. Ali 3†† Information Systems department , Faculty of Computers and Informatics, Benha University, Egypt † Computer Science department , Faculty of Computers and Informatics, Benha University, Egypt †† Summary The applications of Information communication technology have brought change in human life. IOT has changed the life of human beings. Internet of Things (IoT) are measured as one of the enormous advantages for business. So, many types of organizations use IoT technology for various purposes not limited to business automation, business intelligence and marketing. IoT can play a great role in Kitchen industry. But these technologies are not widely used in the Kitchen industry. Food waste is becoming a big problem in many countries, Food waste has always been an issue in kitchens of all sizes. It is, however, seen a lot more in commercial kitchens where there are high volumes of food. Commercial kitchens have many stations that focus on different types of food, which means different ways of preparing food and ultimately should minimize food waste. This paper proposes an IoT based system customized for Kitchen suffering from wasting food during cooking it because of a large number of meals preparing at the same time so that the Chef can forget them on the Cooker during preparing another one. This paper purposes the design and implementation of an Internet of Things (IoT) sensor network technology for refining food waste supervision and management Key words: IoT, Smart Kitchen, Automated Cooker. 1. Introduction Nowadays, Internet of Things (IoT) has a crucial role in all parts of our regular lives. It focuses on several different fields such as entertaining, homes, automobiles, healthcare, industrial applications, sports and many different things. The ubiquity of IoT facilities some ordinary activities, improves the way people interact with the surroundings, and enlarges our social communications with other people and objects.It is very challenging to create systems for the IoT for the following causes: (i) distributed computing complexity , (ii) the absence of common guidelines or outlines that handle low level communication and make it easy for high level implementation, (iii) several programming languages, and (iv) many protocols of communications. Developers are involved to handle the infrastructure and manage both hardware and software layers for all preserving functional and nonfunctional software requirements. The main idea of IoT refers to network technology that allows information transfer between sensor devices. Recently, advances in technology supports many features such as adaptability, real-time monitoring, and traceability [1].The applications of IoT can be observed in number of areas such as kitchen, agriculture, health, and so on. Generally these are prefixed by the word “smart”, Ex. Smart Kitchen. The use of IoT increases with the increased complexity in actuation, sensing, control and communications in extracting knowledge from huge amount of data. This will effect on the quality of different life styles currently [14]. IoT is leading us toward the concept of smart systems, such as smart homes where various electronic appliances are connected with each other with high-quality full-duplex channels for multimedia services. People are controlling their home appliances from remote location. Recently, researchers have done extensive efforts on the smart home technology [15]. Correspondingly, the clue of the smart home is also drawn-out toward the smart community where assistance to humanity is offered by aggregating home, service and community domains. For that system, where a large number of objects are connecting with each other through the internet, producing a huge amount of data, called big data. IoT researchers suggested many new different applications, such as smart homes, e-health systems, wearable devices, etc. [16]–[18]. Kitchen is the unique place, called the main hub or the heart of the home. It is the place where one of the basic needs i.e. food is prepared. It is the common center of social activities of all the family members who share their feelings or emotions. It is equipped with all basic amenities. Smart Kitchen is a technologically advanced system that incorporates interactive services. It is a built in system which consists of a LCD, WSN, RFID reader and tags to provide all the necessary information regarding the menu, inventory of ingredients and diet control measures etc. Recently, Some IoT applications pay more attention on the food supply chain and food waste, but still food waste applications need more attentions. The original contribution in this paper the different technologies, and applications involved in IoT, in different fields and a special mention regarding its role in Smart Kitchen has been discussed. The crucial reasons behind focusing on food waste are the financial, social and environmental costs related with it. A lot of food wastes during industrial processing, distribution