date:Jun 25, 2019
od Sciences.
A shopper selects the fruit and places it onto a small cradle-like device which digitally checks if the product is ripe via a very sensitive and selective radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag. The tag can detect certain dielectric variations in the fruit pulp associated with ripeness, such as turgidity, acidity and water and sugar content.
ILIP research and development manager Luigi Garavaglia said Smart Ripe is the first technology that can monitor - in real-time and in a no