Patent ID: 11874259
Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. An information providing method for an information providing system including 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, the information providing method comprising:
adding, by the scent imparting apparatus, the scented substance to the plant;
transmitting, by the scent imparting apparatus to the information management apparatus, added-amount information indicating an amount of the scented substance added to the plant;
receiving, by the information management apparatus, the added-amount information transmitted by the scent imparting apparatus;
storing, by the information management apparatus, the received added-amount information in an added-amount information storage unit;
detecting, by the scent detecting apparatus, an amount of at least one of the scented substance or the metabolite of the scented substance released from the plant;
transmitting, by the scent detecting apparatus to the information management apparatus, detected-amount information indicating the detected amount of at least one of the scented substance or the metabolite;
receiving, by the information management apparatus, the detected-amount information transmitted by the scent detecting apparatus;
estimating, by the information management apparatus, a freshness of the plant on the basis of the added amount of the scented substance indicated by the added-amount information stored in the added-amount information storage unit and on the basis of the detected amount of at least one of the scented substance or the metabolite indicated by the received detected-amount information;
transmitting, by the information management apparatus, the freshness information regarding the estimated freshness to the scent detecting apparatus;
receiving, by the scent detecting apparatus, the freshness information from the information management apparatus; and
presenting, by the scent detecting apparatus, the received freshness information.