Digital Scent

Technology
Presented by
P.Venu

Contents
Introduction
Evolution of Digital Smell
Principles followed
Hardware Devices
Digital Smell Communication
Applications
Conclusion

Introduction
Until now, online communication
involved only two of our senses, sense
of sight & sense of hearing. Soon it
will involve the third, the sense of smell
using a nose.
Digital scent technology is the main
application of e-nose. With digital scent
technology, it is possible to sense,
transmit & receive smell through
internet.

Evolution of Digital Smell

How it was Invented : For the user to feel more realistic
effects of movies the very new facility of digital smell in
movies or in games have been introduced. The basic idea for
this was given by the perfume making companies for the
advertisements of their perfumes.

Founders : Dexster Smith and Joel Lloyd Bellenson,

experts in bioinformatics and genomics, started from the
following idea: If we can find the essence of a biological
smell and build a profile, we can digitalize and broadcast it.

Principles Followed
Basic Principle of e-Nose: Fundamental principle of
artificial nose is that each sensor in the array has
different sensitivity. The pattern of response across the
sensors is distinct for different odors. Different e-noses
use different types of gas sensors which form heart of enose.

Sensing an ordant: The sensors response is recorded

and delivered to the signal processing unit and then it
is converted into electronic signal by using a
transducer and is processed by using the signal
processing unit.

Hardware Devices
Smell Synthesizer :
The smell synthesizer mean
the device which is used to
generate the smells.
Such as iSmell is device
used to produce the gas
using computer.

Hardware Devices
iSmell :
The iSmell is a peripheral device,

about the size of a PC speaker

that connects to a PC via a serial
or USB port.
The iSmell device reads a digital
scent file, creates a smell from a
"palette'' of 128 chemicals stored
in a cartridge, and then wafts
into the air with a small fan.

Hardware Devices
Catridge :
The cartridge will contain

chemicals either natural oils or

synthetic fragrances that will be
activated by either heat or air
pressure, when you send a
signal from your computer.
Currently 128 chemicals are
stored in a cartridge.

Digital Scent Communication

The e-nose detects the smell molecules and it is indexed
based on two parameters. The scent is indexed according
to its chemical makeup and its place in the scent
spectrum. The chemical makeup can be detected by the
electronic nose .
The indexed scent is digitized into a small file by
olfactory signal processing. This file is sent as an
attachment to the recipients computer.

Digital Scent Communication

At the receiving
end, there will be
a personal scent
synthesizer and
air cannon. The
personal
scent
synthesizer
reproduces
the
smell and the air
cannon direct the
smell to users
nose.

Applications
There are many applications for digital scent
technology such as:
send scented email
watch scented DVD's
play scented video games
advertisements like sample a perfume from a beauty
product's website

Education:
Scent is an effective
teaching tool for subjects
to establish atmosphere
for Geography, History
and Sciences.
we can go any where in
the world or any time in
the past

 Entertainment:
Scent

will establish
mood,sense of place and
characters in music,
movies and interactive
games.

Medical:
Aromatherapy is a kind
of curing certain diseases
by using different types of
smell.
It helps in identifying
dementing brain disorders

Conclusion
A Scent has a strange power over human beings.
The Sense of smell is closely tied to memory and
emotion, making scent a powerful way to reinforce
ideas. Hence we conclude that this digital smell will
revolutionized the world. And at every place we will
require this device, such as for scented mail, scented
movies, scented songs we will require this device.
This device will become our need in future.

Thank
you