Patent ID: 11874260
Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  A  C | IPC G

Claim 4:
5. An information providing system comprising: a scent imparting apparatus that adds a scented substance to a plant; a scent detecting apparatus that detects at least one of the scented substance or a metabolite of the scented substance released from the plant; and an information management apparatus, wherein:
the scent imparting apparatus includes:
an adder that adds the scented substance to the plant, and a transmitter that transmits to the information management apparatus, added-substance information indicating the scented substance added to the plant and production information regarding the plant;
the scent detecting apparatus includes:
a detector that detects at least one of the scented substance or the metabolite of the scented substance released from the plant,
a transmitter that transmits to the information management apparatus, detected-substance information indicating at least one of the scented substance or the metabolite detected by the detector,
a receiver that receives the production information from the information management apparatus, and
a presenter that presents the production information received by the receiver; and
the information management apparatus includes:
a first receiver that receives the added-substance information and the production information transmitted by the transmitter of the scent imparting apparatus,
a production information storage unit that stores the added-substance information and the production information received by the first receiver in association with each other,
a second receiver that receives the detected-substance information transmitted by the transmitter of the scent detecting apparatus,
an identifier that identifies the production information of the plant that is a detection target on the basis of the added-substance information and the production information stored in the production information storage unit and the detected-substance information received by the second receiver, and
a transmitter that transmits the production information identified by the identifier to the scent detecting apparatus.