01-12-2015
The team "Mater Dynamics", a student’s start-up composed by students from the MIT Portugal Program and from FCT NOVA won the acceleration program "Energy of Portugal 2015", project promoted by the newspaper "Express" and EDP, where they presented their product for the first time in public.
The idea of this new technology is to give consumers the possibility to see anywhere all the information of the products we have at home and so make more informed, economic and sustainable decisions. In early December, the "Mater Dynamics" will debut in the Portuguese market the first labels that send alerts for a mobile app on the expiry date, temperature, pressure and humidity found at food.
The tags, known as QStamps, communicate with a RFID reader that can be placed on the refrigerator door or at a closet. The player also has the function of sending data from QStamps for the home router, so that they can be integrated into the platform that triggers alerts in the phone app used for each user. All information captured by QStamps is based on a nanossensor that captures information about the monitored food.
Tiago Cunha Reis, leader of "Mater Dynamics" and mentor the new technology, points out that QStamps can avoid food waste and help the consumer who goes to the supermarket with the drawing up of lists of "faults" automatically detected in the refrigerator. In addition to this valence, the RFID tags are already used in pricing the products found on the shelves, making it possible to analyze the quality of the products.
The QStamps began to be developed two years ago, in the research that Tiago Cunha Reis held in the doctoral program of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. The technology was initially designed for use in specific patches for diabetics, but was eventually adapted to the food industry, paving the way for participation of the MIT Portugal Program and the creation of the startup "Mater Dynamics".
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