Patent ID: 10712081

Abstract:
The present invention relates to a smart repository that can be used as a refrigerator or the like, the smart repository being characterized by comprising: a repository body having a door installed in an entrance/exit formed in a side surface thereof, the repository body containing an outer column that faces the entrance/exit and an inner column that communicates with the outer column through the upper and lower end portions thereof; multiple storing boxes provided to be contained and stacked inside the outer and inner columns; a plurality of vertical driving devices installed on the outer and inner columns, respectively, and driven so as to lift/lower the multiple storing boxes; an imaging portion comprising a plurality of push means for moving a box on the upper end portion of the inner column toward the outer column and moving a box on the lower end portion of the outer column toward the inner column, the imaging portion being configured to take an image of a to-be-stored object introduced through the door; a display portion for displaying images that correspond to the multiple storing boxes one-to-one; and a control portion configured such that the taken images are matched with a storing box positioned in the entrance/exit, stored, and displayed. Accordingly, the content stored in each storing box is imaged and displayed to the outside such that the contents stored in the repository can be easily recognized at a glance.