Team 7 | Lydia Cheng, Ruma Deb, Tim Wang, Dongyu Zhu
Introduction & Value Proposition
Frij is unlike any other fridge you’ve had before. With a unique combination of online database and RFID technology, Frij helps you keep track of your food so you don’t have to. That being said, it makes it much easier to know which foods are about to spoil and gives you inspiration on how to use them, and notifies you when food has gone bad, so you can properly dispose of it.
Motivation
When thinking about some of the the larger issues in the world, a topic that came up was food waste. In fact, 108 billion pounds of food is wasted every year in the United States.
While 108 billion pounds is a ton of food, we also saw recognized this was an issue in our daily lives: whether it be forgetting to use up some lettuce we wanted to make a salad out of or seeing our friends throwing out leftovers because the simply forgot they existed.
Thus, we wanted to find a way to intervene at the consumer level and at throughout the various stages of food management.