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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 23, 2021
Ntt Docomo, Inc., Chiyoda-ku, JP;
Tomoya Moribe, Chiyoda-ku, JP;
Gou Yamanaka, Chiyoda-ku, JP;
Makoto Takahashi, Chiyoda-ku, JP;
Hisashi Matsuoka, Chiyoda-ku, JP;
Yoshiki Okano, Chiyoda-ku, JP;
NTT DOCOMO, INC., Chiyoda-ku, JP;
Abstract
A control apparatus includes: a determiner configured to determine, for each indicator of a plurality of indicators, whether an event relevant to a change in the respective indicator has occurred, the plurality of indicators relating to an environment in which crops are grown, each indicator of the plurality of indicators being detected by one or more sensors of a plurality of sensors; an identifier configured to identify, based on a result of a determination executed by the determiner, a plurality of target sensors from among the plurality of sensors, a number of the plurality of target sensors being less than a number of the plurality of sensors; and a transmission instructor configured to instruct each target sensor of the plurality of target sensors to transmit a respective detection result.