Eye-Q: Reducing Premature Spoilage of Fruit and Vegetables
- Challenge:Food Challenge
- Phase:Seed
- Team Lead:Dr Ultan McCarthy, Waterford Institute of Technology
- Team Co-Lead:Dr Anastasia Ktenioudaki, University College Dublin
- Societal Impact Champion:Prof. Jean Pierre Emond, The Illuminate Group
Premature spoilage due to supply chain inefficiencies is a major cause of commercial food waste and accounts for between 20% and 50% of all fruit and vegetables being lost/wasted. Addressing supply chain inefficiencies is key to addressing food loss/waste and will require a revolutionary transformation of the current commercial supply management systems.
Working with stakeholders to enhance global supply chain efficiency by developing a disruptive cyber-physical platform that combines optical sensing and artificial intelligence (deep learning) technologies to accurately predict food spoilage and remaining shelf-life.