Bay Vision - Spring 2018

Innit ’s mission is to connect people, food and technology through an innovative cooking app that connects to your smart appliances. Hristo Bojinov , CTO at Innit, says that smart technology alone – like ovens with Wi-Fi and smartphone remote controls – are not going to solve all your culinary problems. Innit’s goal is to leverage the latest advances in low-cost technology and to have a deep confidence in food, cuisine and how you cook things. Applying these things together can make devices smarter and improve the whole cycle of how people plan, shop, prepare and cook food every day. Innit partners with appliance manufacturers, consumer food brands, and the retail industry. They work with pre-packaged food companies in the fast-moving consumer goods industry who would like more interaction with the end user – usually their food is taken to a factory, goes into a retail network and then is sold with no contact from one end to the other. In the lab, Innit does a lot of work around cooking and connected appliances, for example, what you can make with different products, and sequencing the right programs for specific appliances given their capabilities and thermo-characteristics. They have even built some prototype hardware in-house to support their culinary research program, including a futuristic oven that has been brought to life so that the team can have full control of the different heating elements in the machine. Hristo tells us that the gradual development of their computer vision program over the last four years has seen a few notable challenges in achieving scale. For example, one of the things they do is take complex scenes, identify objects, and then identify which product they are . They have hundreds of thousands of packaged goods in their database, but fitting all of that into memory in a cost-efficient way has been a challenge. They have also had to resolve integration challenges with vendors because every appliance-maker has their own cloud implementation which they have to be able to interface with. Bay Vision 14 Boston Vision Innit