About the project

  • Title: Intelligent System for Detecting the Degree of Food Freshness/Alteration based on an Electronic Nose Device
  • Program: GNaC 2023 ARUT
  • Contract number: 4/01.07.2024
  • Budget: 50 000 lei
  • Duration: July 2024 - August 2025
  • Abstract: The FoodNose project proposes the development of an intelligent system for detecting the degree of food freshness/alteration based on an e-nose device. The intelligent system will be able to classify foods in several stages, to detect de degree of freshness/alteration of foods, and to notify the users about the detected status of food via a mobile application. Thus, it will contribute to the reduction of food waste, a problem that many countries face, including Romania.

Objectives

  • O1. Development of an experimental model of a hardware e-nose device capable of detecting the degree of freshness/alteration of certain foods
  • O2. Use of experimental model of the e-nose device to create a reference database comprising a large volume of measurements (odor fingerprints) for as many foods as possible, from different main categories, in all four stages of freshness/alteration
  • O3. Processing the data collected in the reference database and those gathered in real-time to classify foods and detect their degree of freshness/alteration, as well as visualizing the obtained results
  • O4. Dissemination of the project results through the publication of scientific papers in prestigious journals and presentations at international scientific events

Team

  • Sanislav Teodora - principal investigator, experienced researcher, (lecturer, PhD)
  • Dobra Vladut Alexandru - member, research assistant (PhD student)
  • Mois Dan George - member, experienced researcher, (associate professor, PhD)
  • Silviu Folea - member, experienced researcher (professor, PhD)

Publications

Conference papers

  1. T. Sanislav, D. A. Sipos, G. Mois, S. Folea, Intelligent System for Coffee Odor Identification and Classification. In Proceedings of the 2024 32th Telecommunications Forum (TELFOR), Belgrade, Serbia, 26 - 27 November 2024