Week 3 - Calorie Counting (Hardware/Computer Forensics)

    This week, I will develop on an aforementioned feature for FoodOn that will be implemented upon its release. It is a feature for the healthy-minded nation that our customers will be glad to know exists. This feature is a calorie counter that will be added as an additional tab in the app that will measure the amount of calories consumed over a standardized period of time. This is also made possible by the fact that all the restaurants that sign up with the service will be required to list all of the dishes with the calories as well as the nutritional information such as protein, fat, vitamin content, etc. Calorie meters will bring more people to use FoodOn because most restaurants today do not offer this information and therefore consumers will want to come to restaurants that sign up with FoodOn because of this information that is made available to them. As a result, everyone wins.
    Last week, the lecture was on computer hardware and computer forensics. My app will utilize information presented in both of the lectures because to support the apps functionality, very powerful hardware will be necessary to sync up all of the mobile devices. Several computers will have to be utilized, but most likely, the servers themselves will have to be very powerful. Cloud computing will be utilized because the power of the internet is great, but to deliver all of the information, memory of the servers will have to be vast, as well as the processor speeds which will probably exceed several gigahertz.
    On the other side, computer security will be a problem as well. The information that FoodOn offers on the nutritional info is very powerful and rival corporations could utilize it to hurt the reputations of other restaurants and companies. Therefore powerful anti-hacking measures will have to be taken. All this will be taken into account when the app is started up and the bigger restaurant chains sign up with the FoodOn service.