Abstract: There is provided a monitoring apparatus including a gas sampling apparatus and a sensor that detects a chemical substance included in gas obtained by the gas sampling apparatus. The gas sampling apparatus includes: an air supplying unit that forms an air curtain to form a space that covers a region to which an object to be monitored is included and which is separated from the outside environment; a sampling unit that extracts the gas inside the separated space; and a diffusion gas supplying unit that supplies, into the separated space, an amount of diffusion gas that is at least equal to the sampled amount of the sampling unit, wherein the sampling unit includes a plurality of sampling nozzles disposed at three-dimensionally different positions inside the separated space.

Abstract: There is provided a monitoring apparatus that monitors abnormalities in a system including a plurality of components or products. The plurality of components or products respectively include a plurality of types of microcapsules that release, due to specific causes, a plurality of marker chemical substances respectively, the marker chemical substances having respectively different ion mobilities. The monitoring apparatus includes an ion mobility sensor that detects the plurality of marker chemical substances. By detecting the marker chemical substances, the monitoring apparatus is capable of identifying the occurrence of an abnormal state, the type of abnormal state, the occurrence location, the extent of the abnormal state, and the like.

Abstract: There is provided an analyzing apparatus including an irradiation unit irradiating a first point with a laser, a convergence unit causing an analysis target to converge at the first point, and a unit analyzing a sample gas including a substance that has been irradiated with the laser at the first point using an ion mobility sensor. One example of the convergence unit includes a unit causing the analysis target to be captured in a carrier substance in a liquid state; and a discharging unit discharging the carrier substance including the analysis target to the first point.

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus including; an interface that receives a first measured data set measured by a FAIMS and first environment information indicating the measurement environment of the first measured data set; a generation unit that generates a plurality of virtual data sets by converting a plurality of existing data sets from a database using conditions controlled according to the first environment information; and an output unit that selects and outputs at least one candidate that is close to the first measured data set from a provisional group including the plurality of virtual data sets.

Abstract: There is provided a transfer device (30) that transfers ionized substances in a first direction. The transfer device (30) includes a drift tube (50) and the drift tube (50) includes electrode plates (71) and (72) constructing an outer wall and a plurality of ring electrodes (60, 61, 62) disposed inside the tube. The ring electrodes (60) forms a first AC electric field for linear driving that causes the ionized substances to travel in the first direction that is the axial direction. The electrode plates (71) and (72) form an asymmetric second AC electric field that deflects the direction of travel of the ionized substances.

Abstract: There is provided a water quality monitoring apparatus including: an air quality analyzing unit detecting, using an ion mobility sensor, air quality in a space that is at least partially enclosed by a partition wall and a boundary surface with water whose water quality is to be monitored; and an alarm unit that outputs a signal indicating an abnormality if an air quality pattern obtained by the air quality analyzing unit is outside a tolerated range for air quality patterns of air that contacts the water to be monitored. Such water quality monitoring apparatus is capable of monitoring the water quality of drinking water inside a water tank or the like indirectly but precisely by detecting the quality of the air contacting the water using an ion mobility sensor.

Abstract: There is provided an analysis apparatus including a unit for preparing a sample gas to be supplied to an ion mobility sensor and a control unit equipped with a function of controlling the unit that prepares the gas. The unit for preparing the gas includes a concentration adjusting mechanism that changes the concentration of the target chemical included in the sample gas, and the control unit includes a driver that acquires a measurement result of the ion mobility sensor and a flow control unit that controls the concentration adjusting mechanism in a direction where is improvement in the measurement result.

Abstract: A search server (30) of the analysis center (10) that provides content related to odors includes: a communication unit (39) that obtains event information (139) from a terminal (100) including an IMS sensor (120); an occurrence cause supplying unit (35) that estimates a combination of chemical substances that are an occurrence cause of an event based on IMS data (129) obtained from a terminal (100) and supplies analysis information (141) including the occurrence cause such as information on the chemical substances to the terminal (100); and a content supplying unit (34) that supplies, when the combination of the plurality of chemical substances includes an already registered recipe (23a) relating to the registered product or service, content (23c) associated with the registered product or service to the terminal (10).

Abstract: A movable olfactory robot dog (1) includes an IMS unit (100) acquiring chemical substance-related information relating to chemical substances included in external air (19) respectively obtained from left and right nostrils (12L) and (12R), and an event monitoring unit (30) that determines the occurrence of an event and occurrence direction of the event relative to the robot dog (1) based on a change in the chemical substance-related information respectively acquired at the left and right nostrils (12L) and (12R).

Abstract: An olfaction processor (OLP) (100) that generates RAW data (35) including content data (139d) relating to chemical substances is provided. The OLP (100) includes a generator (130) that generates the RAW data (35). The chemical substances include at least one of compounds, molecules, and elements. The generator (130) includes a conversion unit (131) that converts intensity variations, which show detected chemical substances included in data from at least one sensor that detects an amount that changes due to presence of at least one of the chemical substances, to the content data (139d) by mapping onto a frequency space where a plurality of frequencies have been respectively assigned to a plurality of specified chemical substances.