Portion control ! try a Smart Plate

About one year after it launched a delivery service for healthy meal ingredients, Philadelphia-based startup, Fitly has unveiled a “SmartPlate” designed to help users manage portion control and stay within calorie and carbohydrate limits through built-in cameras and sensors. It launched a Kickstarter campaign this week to raise $100,000 to bring the plate to market next year.

The company, which is part of the Philadelphia Digital Health Accelerator at the University City Science Center and graduated from DreamIt Health accelerator, is taking pre-orders of the plate on its Kickstarter page and plans to ship them over the summer.

In an interview with Fitly co-founder and CEO Anthony Ortiz, he said it wanted to get away from people having to log food and meals manually. The SmartPlate is designed to identify, weigh and record everything on the plate through sensors and transmit that information to an app. It can also produce information on carbohydrates, protein, fat and sodium, data the company gets from the USDA.

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