Google receives patent from India for technology to monitor food quality

There are no reliable tools for tracking the environmental aspects of food such as temperature, humidity and others in storage and on a serving line, for the food providers and regulators, Google said

Google has received a patent for its technology that monitors quality of the food through sensors on the containers. The technology can display the quality condition in real time and can store data for subsequent analysis. It can also trigger an alarm if the condition of the food is not good.

The company had filed a patent application for a 'System and method for monitoring food' in 2007, which is related to systems and methods for monitoring conditions that affect the quality of food being served. 

Conditions such as temperature and elapsed time affect the quality of food and the