ECE.09M – Weight-it: Your Plate Decoded

• Ifham Haq
• Roman Meshkov
• Marcos Pineda
• Chris Suarez

The rapid advancement of technology has led to the prioritization of comfort and convenience. Unfortunately, this has also affected the dietary habits and lifestyle of a large majority of individuals. Frozen meals and fast food are prioritized in place of nutritional meals. This trend towards easy, accessible, and often unhealthy eating options majorly contributes to a decline in the physical health of the general public. According to a report by the World Obesity Federation (WOF) by 2035 over 4 billion people – more than half the world’s population – will be obese. On top of that; about 60% of US adults currently do not use a device or app to track their fitness or health. Our goal is to provide a tool to overcome poor diet choices by aiding in creating and sustaining healthy daily nutrition. While solutions to track your daily food activity already exist and are quite advanced there is yet to develop a simple nutrition tracker app. All the solutions that exist on the market are too expensive and primarily target the demographic with the means and education to overcome their poor diet. There is a need for a cheap and user-friendly nutrition tracker. Weight-it app aims to fill this market gap and deliver a seamless nutrition tracker that doesn’t require meticulous calculation of calories and nutrients they are consuming. Our product provides a precise, cheap and user friendly approach to nutrition tracking. Using our mobile application, users simply take a photo of their food placed in our lunchbox, and the lunchbox’s integrated scale will combine the weight of their food with the app’s food recognition software and model, ultimately outputting precise nutritional data and values which can be accessed and stored for later reference. Alternatively users can also simply type-in their recipe or food item and data is automatically fetched from one of the largest nutritional databases. We hope to empower individuals to make informed, health-conscious decisions effortlessly, towards a healthier lifestyle.