Improved of Smart Vacuum Flask with Beverage Identifier and Temperature Indicator

Abstract

Vacuum flask has been an essential part of the everyday life of a working person. Nowadays, vacuum flask is not the only function as a liquid carrier but also has been equipped with technology to diversify its function from the essential function. This paper proposes to create a smart vacuum flask that able to classify the beverage type and indicate the temperature range of the beverage. This is attempted to address the user difficulty in remembering the type and temperature of the beverage inside the vacuum flask. This project is built using Arduino as the microcontroller, while LM35 is used to read the temperature sensor. A simple concept of tomography using LDRs and LEDs is used to determine the beverage type. The flask is tested to test nine scenarios: 1) cold and clear beverage; 2) warm and clear beverage; 3) hot and clear beverage; 4) cold and juice beverage; 5) warm and juice beverage; 6) hot and juice beverage; 7) cold and milk beverage; 8) warm and milk beverage; 9) hot and milk beverage. The result obtained indicates that the prototype able to classify all nine scenarios correctly.