How smart wardrobe is better than typical wardrobe ?

We live in an era where people struggle to get some time for them. Hence smart wardrobe is a becoming necessity at the moment. Motive of smart wardrobe is to perform various wardrobe related  tasks and action automatically and also manage it while generating a useful data, records and logs. These makes manageability of wardrobe considerably easier and paves a way for lot more possibilities which may some smarter applications of smart wardrobe in near future. Users now have to interact lesser with wardrobe, but are much more connected  to it than ever before now. The result is time saving and increase in functionality of wardrobe.

Functions Performed:

• Keep track on the clothes whether they are inside the wardrobe or being used outside or gone missing.
• Maintains the humidity and temperature level inside the wardrobe.
• Prevents from unhygienic conditions inside the wardrobe.
• Prevents clothes from getting damaged and several fungal and bacterial infections.
• Alerts whenever senses any movement inside wardrobe when it is closed.
• Detects the odour from the clothes and alerts to transfer them to laundry section.
• Keeps a check on the expiration of the various accessories and warns prior to the expiry date.
• A separate laundry section is made that keeps a count on the clothes to be washed and notifies for washing.

Problems faced in typical wardrobes

Clothing manageability and tracking

People usually never have any idea that what variation of clothing they have in their wardrobe. Due to the busy schedule now a day’s clothes are never managed and there is no track of the clothes. So many times clothes go missing. Further improper managing many times leads people to buy similar kind of clothes again, hence wastage of money.

Damp patches

Sometimes due to the damp patches on the walls of wardrobe humidity increases inside. Due to which clothing is severely damaged and mainly the leather products are heavily affected (white coloured patches appears). An unhygienic condition is created inside the wardrobe and people may get affected to skin diseases and fungal infections.

Rodent invasion

These commonly found rodents’ troubles people a lot in household. Many times they sneak inside the wardrobe and bite the clothes resulting in heavy economical loss to our pockets and losing up our matched collections. They also move around in the wardrobe spreading bacteria, which can cause several bacterial infections.

Unused clothes

Many times people get some clothes but they never wear it (or just for 2-3 times). Stack of other clothes are made on it and that piece of cloth is forgotten and remains unused.

Laundry Management

Clothes must be washed regularly but with this busy schedule it becomes very difficult for people to do it on daily basis. So clothes are piled in the laundry basket to washed at some interval but these intervals are very irregular and those sweaty and dirty clothes starts to  smell.

Accessories expiration

Several kind of accessories are found inside the wardrobe but there are some that comes that comes with a expiry date like deodorant’s and other cosmetic items. So within vast variety of accessories some may remain unused and they expire. As these items are costly so money is simply wasted.

Wardrobe odor

There are various factors resulting in wardrobe odor like stuffiness, lack of air circulation, damp clothes, used clothes etc. There are other unexpected possibilities such as pests, insects, rodents and damp patches on walls.

A smart start

Time is of utmost importance to everybody. People work for 16 hours in a 24 hour day. With  schedule this hectic, people barely have time for little things, like laundry piling up in their closet, keeping tracks of whereabouts of their clothes. Finding things can be little frustrating, and keeping track of your wardrobe's condition is a whole another beast. Wardrobe's  common enemies such as rodents, humidity, hygiene and some other conditions needs constant checking. Wardrobe isn’t some typical inventory. It is a bit more special since many of items present in wardrobe are handpicked by you and defines you, reflects you and in many ways are dear or important to you. You spend a lot of time personalizing it whether you know it or not. Almost every operation concerning wardrobe requires you to interact with it, even checking its contents. We live in an era where people struggle to get some time for them. So what if we took most of this burden away from them. What if there was an intelligent system that took care of most of things about wardrobe. Imagine that if your wardrobe needs some attention from you, it will tell you that. A wardrobe that keeps track of the things you use, warns you about products about to expire. That’s where our project "Smart Wardrobe” comes in. Now not only your wardrobe can take care of many important tasks, now you can also do much more with your wardrobe which you never thought were possible or were to time consuming to do, thus making your life easier.