Objective:
To give the citizen portable daily eating advices for taking care of health and keeping fit, as well as people’s eating preference to restaurant.
The device would calculate the nutrition facts user needed depending on their general information entered, and give the diet health advices according to their eating habit, in advance, notify them if disease data entered, such as allergic.
Although many similar nutrition systems exist in the market, most of them contain many too professional functions to common users. The proposed system will let the user easy to use, make the interface friendly.
Scope:
The proposed system has some scopes, that is related to users’ and restaurants’ corporation and PDA’s internet assess ability.
The user’s data is hard to be quantified. It has several reasons. The user may forget to enter the record of daily data. Thus the system has to evaluate the corresponding possible missing data. In some cases, especially in Chinese family diners, all family members eat the same course. The user do not know the exactly quantity of eating. According to these reasons, the data collected is hard to be properly.
To make the system running efficiently, the restaurants join in this system should cooperate well. They are compulsory to update their menu database regularly. Otherwise, the system can not match the correct name of course.
The system requires the PDA to be internet-enable. Users’ data will be sent to server through internet, while the PDA should get the menu information from database stored in server.
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