Odor Sensing

Problem Area

• The discharge of chemical substances and waste into the atmosphere, water and soil throughout the product life cycle, including after waste disposal has been adversely affecting the environment and health of the local community members who live around the industrial areas.
• Also, health damage to the workers as a result of industrial equipment failures is causing more problems for factory managers.
• Panasonic hopes to reduce the impact on the environment and human health by responding to accidents and abnormalities before they become significant through detecting the leakage of harmful substances and abnormalities at early stages.

Potential Partners

• By using high sensitivity and high-speed technologies to detect outflow of harmful substances and abnormality of devices, which is traditionally difficult to identify, health damage and relevant costs can be minimized.
• Panasonic would like to work with a partner who can use the odor sensors provided by Panasonic to propose solutions to save the environment and health of people from hazardous substances released by factories and facilities, and harmful substances generated by machine failures.

Problem Area

• There is an increasing demand for safe, secure & sustainable food sources. Yet in Thailand, its national policy and regulations does not take into consideration agricultural practices involving harmful chemicals. For example, Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) does not regulate pesticide usage.
• As food is the basis of life, Panasonic would like to provide safe to consume agricultural products and food that does not have residual pesticides and harmful chemicals.

Problem Area

• Due to global population growth & the aging of the population worldwide, there is a lack of resources such as doctors and medical facilities. Many measures have been put in place to make healthcare more efficient e.g. digitalization of medical records, telemedicine. However, the fundamental working environment of healthcare professionals have not been improved. Medical personnel are constantly being exposed to the effects of harmful gases (anesthetic, ethylene oxide) over a long period, resulting in severe health risks.
• To help everyone lead a healthy and happy life, Panasonic hopes to improve the working conditions of healthcare providers to allow them to provide the right care to patients when they require it.