Tellspec Food Sensor is the world’s first consumer handled device able to scan food at a molecular level. It provides you with the most relevant and useful information about what is in your food so you can make an informed decision that better matches your health needs. The technology includes a three-part system ,a pocket-sized sensor, a cloud-based analysis engine, and a mobile app that work together to scan foods, identify calories, macronutrients, allergens, fiber, sugars, and also provide relevant nutritional information such as the glycemic index, with one simple scan. Tellspec helps you track the intake of calories, carbohydrates, fats, proteins, sugars and glycemic load per meal, per day, per week, per month and per quarter. It helps you narrow down possible food sensitivities by tracking how you feel and what you ate.
The handheld scanner incorporates a miniature near infrared spectrometer. The internal light source focuses a beam of light through the front window into the food. Light reflected from the sample is then collected through the same window. This light is then dispersed onto a micro-mirror device, and measured by an optimized detection system. This produces a digital electronic signal, known as a spectrum, characteristic of the composition of the food.
The digitized spectrum of the food is transmitted wirelessly from the scanner to the Tellspec analysis engine in the cloud. Tellspec’s algorithms analyze the spectrum for information about the food, and send the results back to your phone for you to see. The algorithms are based on machine learning and several bioinformatics techniques. The combination of machine learning, bioinformatics techniques and traditional spectroscopy gives Tellspec the ability to extract nutritional information from a spectrum, the unique fingerprint of the food.
Tellspec’s mission is to help create a clean food revolution by providing consumers with information about what is really in their food beyond the nutrition label. For diabetic people, Tellspec is an indispensable tool that helps them manage their disease. Thier goal is to make our food analysis system available to everyone, everywhere, and to encourage people to use this tool to invent more great ways to improve human health. Until recently, this type of analysis had to be performed in a laboratory with large and expensive equipment to get spectra of adequate quality. Tellspec has successfully worked on several versions sizes of the food sensor and is currently finalizing the miniaturization of the future Tellspec Food Sensor generation 1.
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