Sensor-Equipped Crate for Monitoring Freshness of Raw Chicken

Clients

Techstack

Purpose

Spoiled raw chicken is hard to catch until it has already become a health risk, and cold storage alone can't tell you whether the meat inside is still safe. A research team wanted a way to watch freshness from inside the crate itself — tracking the invisible signs of spoilage before anyone opens the lid.

Description

We built an instrumented crate that continuously reads temperature, humidity, and the ammonia and hydrogen-sulfide gases raw chicken gives off as it spoils, converting raw sensor signals into calibrated concentration levels. Readings show on an onboard display and stream to the cloud for remote monitoring, so freshness can be judged at a glance or from anywhere. We evaluated its accuracy across different storage temperatures — exactly the kind of sensor-driven food-safety problem we take on and ship.