A smarter fridge for a more connected community.
Nourish monitors community refrigerators, recognizes what is inside, and connects donors with the food banks that need it. Scroll to open it.
Three roles, one shared picture of the food.
Everyone in a Nourish network works from the same inventory, the same sensor history, and the same verified donation record. What each person sees depends on what the fridge owner has agreed to share.
Food banks
Coordinate a network of fridges from one place.
- Map of connected fridges with live status
- Shared inventory and expiration lists
- Rescue missions for specific surplus food
- Community events with verified leaderboards
Fridge operators
Know how your fridge is doing without opening it.
- Temperature, moisture, and air-quality history
- Camera recognitions you confirm or correct
- Anomalies flagged for review, never guessed at
- Control exactly what each food bank can see
Donors
Bring food where it is needed and watch it count.
- Nearby fridges with what they have and need
- Missions with clear eligibility and deadlines
- Neighborhood territories and impact leaderboards
- Weekly Solana reward simulation
What is in the kit.
Nourish retrofits an affordable refrigerator with off-the-shelf parts. Every component maps to something you can see in the dashboards.
- Front camera
- Captures presented food for barcode reading and Gemini identification.
- Interior camera
- Captures shelf frames for Gemini food recognition.
- Temperature probe
- Cabinet temperature, uploaded every five seconds when connected.
- Air-quality sensor
- Relative gas-sensor readings flag changes for review; not a food-spoilage test.
- Moisture module
- Detects moisture by contact; does not measure relative humidity.
- Speaker
- ElevenLabs voice for hands-free donor check-in.
- Arduino-compatible board
- Reads sensors over USB; the fridge Mac runs cameras and uploads data.
Clear about what is live.
Demo mode uses clearly labeled mock community data. Live monitoring and inventory use Tiger Data. Gemini and ElevenLabs run on the fridge Mac, linked through the camera station; that Mac must stay online. Weekly leaderboard SOL payouts are simulated. Integration setup is shown below; these labels do not indicate current device health:
Setup instructions for each integration are in the project README and .env.example.
- ConfiguredClerk authenticationGoogle and email sign-in, protected dashboards
- ConfiguredTigerData / PostgreSQLPersistent records and sensor time-series
- Via fridge stationGeminiFood recognition and expiration-date extraction on the fridge Mac
- Via fridge stationElevenLabsVoice-assisted donations through the connected fridge station
- Demo payoutsSolana rewardsWeekly top-three leaderboard rewards · simulated SOL payouts
- ConfiguredFridge hardware ingestSensor readings from the Arduino board