Smart Consumption

8-10% of global greenhouse gas emissions are associated with food that is not consumed.

UNEP, 2021

Tagface: Reducing food waste by data

Illustration: Yujie Wang

In Ontario Canada, Food waste accounts for 32% of waste generated.

Price tag meets big-data

Tagface is a smart digital price-tag system with a mobile app, which is a data-mining tool to sync grocers’ inventory systems with the consumer’s real-time need to save money and reduce food waste by benefiting both stores and customers.

Many customers have difficulty understanding food labels. Tagface display not only the retail price but also other environmental and health-related information about food. In addition, a lot of food waste is created because of the grocery stores’ static inventory management. Smart price tags can reduce store management and label-changing costs. They can be changed anytime easily and as frequently as needed to meet demands and reduce waste.

Recognition

1st Place Winner of ShareON Design Jam, 2018

Collaborators

Te Chen
Te Chen

Te Chen is an environmental ambassador at Vanke China. He is a graduate of the Bioinformatics program at the University of Toronto.

Yujie Wang
Yujie Wang

Yujie is a graduate student at MIT and the Co-founder of Muser and AiRCAR, with research experience at MIT Media Lab and Harvard Medical School and professional experience at Philips Healthcare, Maersk, FaunaPhotonics, UISEE Technology and Bruce Mau Design.

Tian-Wei Li
Tian-Wei Li

Tian Wei is a nature-lover and wildlife-enthusiast studying landscape architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is interested in the topic of equitable, symbiotic, and co-habitational relationships between humans and nonhuman agents in the built environment and beyond.