Compartmentalized smart refrigerator with automated item management

A smart refrigerator system, comprising:

• a plurality of compartments, each of the compartments operable to be selectively coupled to an air passage and configured to contain one or more items;
• one or more tag readers configured to read one or more tags;
• one or more chemical sensors configured to detect spoilage-produced gas;
• a non-transitory memory;
• and
• one or more hardware processors coupled to the non-transitory memory and configured to read instructions from the non-transitory memory to cause the system to perform operations comprising:
• receiving item information corresponding to the one or more tag readers reading a tag associated with an item in a first compartment;
• tracking a state of the item;
• detecting the item has spoiled based on the one or more chemical sensors detecting the spoilage-produced gas from the item;
• and
• sealing, in response to the detecting the item has spoiled, the first compartment such that the first component is sealed from the air passage.

A method, comprising:

• reading, by a processing system using one of one or more tag readers, a tag coupled to an item in a first compartment of a refrigerator;
• determining, by the processing system in response to the reading, a target temperature of the item;
• adjusting, by the processing system, a temperature setting of the first compartment to a first temperature based on the target temperature, wherein each compartment of the refrigerator has independent temperature settings;
• determining, by the processing system, item usage information for the item indicating a time the item is to be used;
• determining, by the processing system, the item requires a second temperature to facilitate usage;
• and
• changing, by the processing system, a temperature of the item to the second temperature based on the time the item is to be used.