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

Claim 5:
6. 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-amount information indicating an amount of the scented substance added to the plant;
the scent detecting apparatus includes:
a detector that detects an amount of 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-amount information indicating the amount of at least one of the scented substance or the metabolite detected by the detector,
a receiver that receives freshness information regarding a freshness of the plant from the information management apparatus, and
a presenter that presents the freshness information received by the receiver; and
the information management apparatus includes:
a first receiver that receives the added-amount information transmitted by the transmitter of the scent imparting apparatus,
an added-amount information storage unit that stores the added-amount information received by the first receiver,
a second receiver that receives the detected-amount information transmitted by the transmitter of the scent detecting apparatus,
an estimator that estimates the 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 detected-amount information received by the second receiver, and
a transmitter that transmits the freshness information regarding the freshness estimated by the estimator to the scent detecting apparatus.