Técnico students win the Vodafone Merit Award in Mobile Networks and Internet of Things
Jéssica Consciência and Tiago Leite won the award for their project on fight food waste.
The ceremony of the Vodafone Merit Award in Mobile Networks and Internet of Things took place on 22nd June, at Técnico – Alameda Campus. The Antiwaste project, developed by the Técnico students Jéssica Consciência and Tiago Leite (Electrical and Computer Engineering), was the winning project among three projects.
The Antiwaste project aims to fight food waste. For this purpose, a proof of concept was designed that brings together a camera, a screen that would be placed on the fridge door, and an app. When the fridge door is opened, to place or remove a food item, an image is processed and communicated to the app, which displays all the food items available in the fridge and their respective expiry dates on a list. The app will then tell the user when a product is approaching its expiry date and suggests recipes to use almost-expired food, thus contributing to reducing food waste.
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