THE APP

Saving the world is not always easy, but with our app we hope to make it a little bit easier for you. With this app, our goal is that you will never get rotten or mouldy food in your fridge that must be thrown away.

Based on your personal and genius fridge sensor, the app will let you know when your fresh ingredients are getting close to their due date. Then it will suggest recipes where you can make use of your leftover ingredients.

To make a more tailored experience, the app will also know what suggestions you like, and don't like. Do you have any special preferences, like allergies? No problem! You may always customize with your suggestion settings. That way, you will get suggestions that are more relevant to you the more you use the app!

Illustrated prototype of an app that makes recipes out of groceries that have in the fridge

THE SENSOR

Illustrated arm taking milk out of a refrigerator that scans the food

Our solution is to use a technology that can be added to something a lot of us already have - a refrigerator.

To use fomoFOOD, you’ll need our smart fridge sensor. The fridge sensor is easy to install, and fits all refrigerators. All you need to get started, is to put the sensor on the inside of the fridge edge, install the app and connect it to your sensor.

How does it work?
Every time you open the door to your refrigerator, the sensor kicks in. It scans the items you’re putting in or taking out, noting the barcode and the expiration date. The information is sent to your phone, and you can see on the app what is inside your refrigerator and when it expires. If you take something out, the app will register the item as used until you put it back in.

THE "DONATE" FUNCTION

We all know that it’s very easy to just throw your leftover food in the trash when you’re going away, especially if you know that it’ll expire by the time you come back home. Therefore, we wanted to add an option to give away your food so that it can be of use to someone else, and so that no perfectly good food goes to waste.

We also realize that not everyone would want to just give away the food that they bought with their own, hard-earned money, which is why we added the “points”. When you give away food, you get a certain amount of points that you can later use, in the form of a discount to use the next time you buy food. We believe that a rewarding system will encourage people to want to use this function.

Illustrated prototype of an app with a point system