Abstract - In a home the kitchen plays a major role in keeping the family alive and together, as the kitchen serves as the place where meals are prepared and also the meeting point where members of the family meet to eat. Amongst all the appliances or devices that are found in a kitchen, refrigerator is of great importance. This is due to the fact that the refrigerator house or keep intact food items that are needed in the home. Traditional refrigerators have been performing great task in preserving food items for a period of time, but there is need for more efficient ways of preserving and managing food items. With the innovations in technology came the Internet of Things (IoT) where divers appliance are connected together courtesy the internet, home appliance inclusive. Internet Refrigerator, which is a typical IoT also got innovated with the expectations to make life more convenient and comfortable by managing the kitchen more efficiently. It is expected to manage items or resources kept in it, save unnecessary cost, save food wastage, plan an organized menu, as well as organized shopping list. This research work looks at Internet Refrigerator as a typical Internet of things, its components, benefits and challenges as well as its acceptability. Keywords----Internet Refrigerator, Internet of Things, RFID, RFID tags. I. INTRODUCTION - HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF INTERNET REFRIGERATOR NTERNET refrigerator also known as Smart refrigerator is a refrigerator which has been programmed to sense what kinds of products are being stored inside it and keep a track of the stock through barcode or RFID scanning. This kind of refrigerator is often equipped to automatically determine when a food item needs to be replenished [20]. It also provides users with extra information about their products, their nutritional facts and consumption history. [1] An internet refrigerator can download recipes based on its content; communicate with a microwave oven to prepare the cooking power and time for the given mix of ingredients. It can suggest Folasade Osisanwo, is with the Department of Computer Science, Babcock University, Ilishan Remo, Ogun State, Nigeria (phone: +2348033673152 ; e- mail: yosisanwo@yahoo.com ). Shade Kuyoro is with Department of Computer Science, Babcock University, Ilishan Remo, Ogun State, Nigeria (email: afolashadeng@gmail.com). Oludele Awodele is with the is with Department of Computer Science, Babcock University, Ilishan Remo, Ogun State, Nigeria (email: delealways@yahoo.com). . drinks based on what is stored inside, the ambient temperature and the time of the day. [6] The first refrigerator connected to the Internet called Quantified Fridge was in a wired 100-year-old house in the Netherlands by Alex van Es in July 12, 1998; where it existed alongside networked lights, doorbell, mailbox, and, a toilet. There is a record and broadcast every time the fridge door opens. As of this writing, almost 16 years after inception; it has been opened for almost 70,000 times. [23] In 1999, Electrolux Screenfridge, a connected refrigerator designed to allow users to order groceries over the Internet - but the product has yet to ship- was unveiled. In 2000, Whirlpool/Cisco refrigerator which allow users to watch a celebrity chef on the Web pad was launched. It has an integrated Web-browser to search for recipes that match the food items people have on hand. In 2002, the Whirlpool's refrigerator transforms into a multimedia communications centre such that the owner can surf the Internet, receive e- mails, listen to the radio, watch TV, videos and DVDs and even talk on the phone. In 2003, LG’s Digital Multimedia Side-By-Side Fridge Freezer with LCD Display came on board as the ultimate in kitchen technology with a built-in MP3 player for downloading and playing music from the internet, e-mail and video mail using a built-in camera and microphone. It has full internet access for re-stocking the refrigerator on-line or checking on the latest news and weather without leaving the kitchen. It is also great for storing food. The Electrolux Screenfridge resurfaced in 2006 equipped with 15" touch screen and pop-up keyboard. It is connected to broadband and TV via wireless connection. In addition to Internet, email, phone, radio and MP3 player Electrolux adds highly advanced calendar and video messaging system so the kitchen truly becomes the center hub in the house. Whirlpool centralpark equipped with satellite radio, a Web tablet with interactive message board and family calendar, a digital picture frame, a DVD/CD player and other features came out in 2007. [13] There have been so many other attempts at making internet refrigerator a success. In 2009 Samsung offered a fridge with a detachable LCD screen with a message board for "smart food management". In 2010 LG suggested a fridge with internet access that enabled users stay tuned to the internet. In 2011 Samsung again offered a new internet fridge, the Futuristic RF4289 with an 8in touch screen. One of the latest attempts is the LG Home Chat show cased at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas in 2014 by Korea LG. Internet Refrigerator –A typical Internet of Things (IoT) Folasade Osisanwo, Shade Kuyoro, and Oludele Awodele I 3rd International Conference on Advances in Engineering Sciences & Applied Mathematics (ICAESAM’2015) March 23-24, 2015 London (UK) http://dx.doi.org/10.15242/IIE.E0315051 59