Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Makoto Imai

Kazuhiko Hashimoto

Hiroyuki Ogino

Hideki Omori

Tadashi Miki

Osamu Eguchi

Hidekazu Yamashita

Haruo Terai

Kenji Kida

Wataru Uchiyama

A monitoring system for preventing crime in a home, includes a plurality of terminals for monitoring whether predetermined monitoring points are in a stationary or nonstationary state. Further, the monitoring system includes a central processing device for controlling the setting/canceling of alarm operations of the terminals. The central processing device has a communication unit that receives stationary/nonstationary information from the terminals and transmits predetermined information including commands to the terminals. Each terminal has a communication unit that transmits stationary/nonstationary information to the central processing device and receives the predetermined information from the central processing device. Thus bidirectional communication can be achieved between the central processing device and the terminals. The terminals may include a terminal with an emergency call unit which, in an emergency, calls or notifies another, and a terminal having a notification unit which indicates that a nonstationary state has been accepted by a predetermined point of contact.

Monitoring system

Growing community of inventors

Yamatokoriyama, Japan

Makoto Imai