Smart fridge door notifications

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In 2021, I saw a Tweet mentioning a smart fridge telling its owner that they had opened the doors often enough to earn a “red” rating:

Door Open Count

Fresh Food	Freezer
44	9
(Daily Avg.)	(Daily Avg.)
Frequent door openings require your unit to run more often and may prevent your unit from maintaining the set temperature. Frost, increased noise, and low ice production may also be experienced.	Freezer compartment activity in the last month did not impact performance.

To me, this is strange, because I would expect that how long a fridge is left open contributes more to thermal losses than how many times one opens the doors, and, presumably, users do not open doors unless they need to; to put or retrieve an item.

In 2024, I started logging door open and close events on my fridge. If I had one of those actual smart fridges that can e-mail me, an alert, over the course of the 30 days of June, could look like the following:

I seem to remember that many reactions to Hon’s post were from people who thought that 44 times a day was a lot of fridge events, but I would assume that most of them do not have definite metrics and may underestimate their own usage.

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