FLUID SENSOR SYSTEM, COMPUTING DEVICE, AND FLOW DIRECTION ESTIMATION METHOD

The sensor of a fluid sensor system includes an outer peripheral sensor unit including three or more sensor pairs to surround and sandwich the heating element. The computing device of the system includes a first identification unit identifies a sensor pair in which an output difference between an output value corresponding to a temperature detected by one temperature sensor of the sensor pair and an output value corresponding to a temperature detected by the other temperature sensor of the sensor pair is largest, a second identification unit identifies other sensor pairs adjacent to the identified sensor pair in the circumferential direction, and a flow direction estimation unit estimates the flow direction of the fluid on the basis of the output difference in the sensor pair having the largest output difference and output differences in the other sensor pairs adjacent to the sensor pair in the circumferential direction.