A third of the food produced in the world ends up in the rubbish, enough to put an\nend to world hunger. On the other hand, society is increasingly concerned to bring healthy eating\nhabits. A RFID (radio frequency identification) food management system is designed to palliate the\npreviously described issues in an Internet of Things (IoT) network paradigm. It consists of RFID\nreaders placed on a userâ??s kitchen furniture, which automatically reads food information. There is\nno need for direct sight between reader and tag, as it occurs through the barcode technology. As a\ncomplement, a multi-platform web application is developed, allowing its users to check the date of\nfood expiration and other detailed information. The application notifies the user when a product is\nabout to expire. It also offers recipes that might be prepared with available foods, thus preventing\nthem from being wasted. The recipes are accompanied by their nutritional information, so that the\nuser can exhaustively monitor what he/she eats. This embedded system may provide economic\nbenefits to the manufacturer, since it allows supermarkets to pay for displaying their products\nadvertised through the application. After system deployment, design conclusions are shown, and\nfuture improvement points are indicated.
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