Intelligent fresh food system 
An apple a day keeps the doctor away! To have access to these life-saving apples, the aim of this project is to develop a self-checkout system for an intelligent fruit crate. The crate itself can register movement of fruit, i.e. restocking and removal of items. Besides handling (simulated) payment of produce, the system should also do some housekeeping and notify staff in case of problems or need of restocking.

Urban Farming system 
Urban Farming covers the variety of producing your own food in urban areas. The main challenge is to support the amateur gardenersin how to care about their fruits and vegetables.Basically, the gardener must take care about one or more greenhouses containing a variety of food and plantsto successfully harvest something.  
Therefore, various tasks, such as regulating the temperature, the humidity and water levelmust be taken care of.They also must weed the greenhouse for example. The more different plants are contained the more complex the tasks will get. Since the gardener is at amateur level, he/she might have to be reminded on what to do at what time. Learning from other gardeners which already reached another level can also help to increase the own feature set. 
 

Pick-Up system for (click & collect) 
Instead of going into a physical store to buy products which are required to prepare a meal or dinner this evening, many people are using click & collect systems. 
Some retailers are providing a catalog of recipes, which can be chosen by the end customer. According to the chosen recipe a digital shopping basket will be generated, containing all products required to prepare the meal. If the customer decides to proceed to the checkout, the retail store where he/she wants to pick up the products is chosen and the availability of the products has to be checked and some might have to be replaced by alternatives. 
When issuing the order, a store employee will be notified to assemble the products so that the customer can pick them up. 

Window Shopping 
Local retail stores are increasingly including alternative interfaces for end customers to buy food & stuff. A prominent technique is so called window shopping, where a display is placed behind the shop window. On this display a variety of articles is shown. The customer can use the mobile phone as a virtual pointer to browse the articles and select some to put it into a virtual shopping basket (an alternative interaction could be realized via gesture control). The virtual shopping basket is connected to the store’s online shop, i.e. the customer is probably known to the store via a loyalty program for example. Proceeding to the web checkout will issue an order of the selected articles, that will be sent to the customer’s home or made available through a click&collect process. With window shopping it is possible to use the smallest possible physical space for the shop to present a variety of articles and offer shopping outside of the usual opening hours. 
 

Queuing system for fresh food counter 
Fresh food counters are belonging to the standard inventory of a classical retail store. There, the end customer talks to a store employee who assembles a custom set of fresh cheese or meat according to the customer’s wishes. 
Usually this is a place in the store, where many customers are queuing up and have to wait until an employee deals with their ordering. 
An intelligent queuing system could register acustomer in a virtual queue which is processed according to meta information such as customers’ location inside the store. The shopper / customer can register at the counter and can receive a physical paper receipt or a digital one. The waiting time can be estimated including information about waiting customers, so that he/she can potentially look up other products already. A notification in case of a digital receipt is generated as soon as the waiting time comes to an end (considering the customer’s location in the store and the number of shoppers in the waiting queue).