Wireless pocket-size kitchen scale

problem

• more and more people need to care about their nutrition
• patients with chronic diseases, such as heart disease, stroke, cancer, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes, need to make sensible food choices
• people with food allergies or intolerances also follow special diets
• newly diagnosed with a cronic disease or food allergy/intolerance, need to be aware of how much nutrient is in their meal times in order to balance medicine doses
• how to inform people about food composition
• supporting people with reliable food composition data (FCD) anytime and anywhere

solution

• we developed a lite, pocket-sized, smart kitchen scale that is wirelessly connected to a mobile phone
• a user may weight the portion and instantly check the food content not only at home but also out of home, avoiding health complications

application

As the scale is portable and of a pocket-size, it is easy to be carried around and used.

• receiving weighed values from the scale over the Bluetooth protocol
• the calculated values are added to the personal database on the smartphone
• transfer of values into the user's personal database on the server

OPKP implementation

• receiving food composition data from the Web server food composition database
• selection of food that is currently weighed through the system of pull-down menus
• recalculation of carbohydrates and other important values

download

video:
BTscale2.mov
BTscale.mpg

pdf:
BTscale User manual