IoT Solutions for Reducing Food Wastage in Australia - ITC560

This report addresses the significant problem of food wastage in Australia, where a substantial amount of food is discarded annually, exacerbating hunger and environmental issues. The report introduces the concept of utilizing Internet of Things (IoT) solutions to enhance food preservation and reduce waste. It begins with an introduction outlining the problem, followed by an abstract summarizing the research methods and objectives. A literature review provides an in-depth analysis of existing research, and the methodologies for reducing food wastage are discussed and compared based on factors such as waste reduction rate, commercialization potential, efficiency, and reliability. The report concludes with a justification of the chosen solution, supported by practical applications, tables, and graphs, offering a comprehensive overview of the potential of IoT in addressing food wastage.

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Milestone 3: Introduction of the problem and challenges
Introduction to the problem
Australia is presently facing the serious issue of the food wastage. In this country,
where almost 2 million people commonly seek the food relief every year, almost 20% of the
food that is purchased within Australia has been discovered to be thrown away in a year
(Farr-Wharton, Choi & Foth, 2014). In this country it has been observed that almost $10
billion of the food each year is thrown out and almost four million tonnes of the food has
been observed to be ending up in the landfill in a year. This major wastage of the food is
worsening the hunger problems that are being faced by the country and it also leads to the
increase of the devastating pressure on environment (Papargyropoulou et al., 2014). When
the food has been deposited in the landfill, there is the issue of the no decomposition using
the natural methods and there is the releasing of the methane, which is the greenhouse gas
that could be significantly detrimental to environment and it is the massive impact on the
significant climate change (Tielens, & Candel, 2014). The food production requires the
enormous amounts of the resources. When the food has been wasted, this denotes that the
resources and the inputs that are used in production of the resources are easily lost (Dou et
al., 2016). This significant wastage of the food in the country requires the modern solutions
and it is required to be significantly optimised along with the implementation of the proper
decision for eradicating this issue. For the introduction of these kinds of the modern
solutions, there is the requirement of the IoT solutions for enhancing the food preservations.
Structure of the report
The report starts with the brief introduction of the report that provides the structure of
the report and the topics that are covered in the report. In the abstract, the defining of the
main purpose, the research method, the critical orientation, the methodologies and the

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comparison and the most appropriate solution is described. The introduction is provided for
the report that clearly describes the topic that has been selected for the report where the
description of the food wastage and the IoT has been described. The literature review of the
present and the past work has been conducted with the extensive analysis for the clear
understanding of the various prospects of the selected sector. The methodologies that are used
for the reduction of the food wastage in Australia has been briefly discussed in the report.
The comparison of the methodologies and the choice of the most appropriate solution has
been done where the this decision has been done on basis of the rate of the food reduction, on
the basis of the commercialisation and on the basis of the efficiency and the reliability has
been provided. The justification of the choice has been provided on the basis of the practical
use of the methodology and the tables and the graphs are provided and lastly the report
concludes with the appropriate conclusion for the report.

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References
Dou, Z., Ferguson, J. D., Galligan, D. T., Kelly, A. M., Finn, S. M., & Giegengack, R.
(2016). Assessing US food wastage and opportunities for reduction. Global Food
Security, 8, 19-26.
Farr-Wharton, G., Choi, J. H. J., & Foth, M. (2014, December). Food talks back: exploring
the role of mobile applications in reducing domestic food wastage. In Proceedings of
the 26th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference on Designing Futures:
the Future of Design (pp. 352-361). ACM.
Papargyropoulou, E., Lozano, R., Steinberger, J.K., Wright, N. and bin Ujang, Z., 2014. The
food waste hierarchy as a framework for the management of food surplus and food
waste. Journal of Cleaner Production, 76, pp.106-115.
Tielens, J., & Candel, J. J. L. (2014). Reducing food wastage, improving food security? An
inventory study on stakeholders’ perspectives and the current state. Food & Business
Knowledge Platform.