INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
When Germany's Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) released a prototype sensor for allowing smartphones to smell, it didn't merely
replicate what a human nose can do
Once deployed, the phone will be able to detect aromas far more precisely than human noses
What is the enterprise IT potential here Quite a bit.Let's start with a few dangers
When employees smell smoke, electrical burning or a gas leak, companies lose valuable time trying to find the source, especially if the
smell is coming from behind a wall
That's mostly because human noses are fine — to varying degrees, changing from person to person — at detecting smells, but the nose
can quickly become accustomed to the smell
A smell-equipped phone, however, could indicate that the smell's concentration at this instant is x parts per million and that
theconcentration increases when moving north and decreases when moving south
That alone could potentially save lives.
