Monitoring system and terminal device

• US 20100013921A1
• Filed: 07/17/2008
• Published: 01/21/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/17/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NSJ Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: NSJ Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Takano, Eiichi, Joko, Toshikazu
• Granted Patent: US 8,497,903 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/143
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19647 Systems specially adapted for intrusion detection in or around a vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/1966 Wireless systems, other than telephone systems, used to communicate with a camera
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/10 using wireless transmission systems G08B25/009 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources

Abstract

A monitoring system for surveiling an object substance includes plural movable bodies periodically patrolling surveillance areas each having a prescribed area and acquiring image data and/or audio data showing statuses during a patrol, an area local control institution installed in each of the surveillance areas for receiving from the movable bodies and storing various data including the image data and/or audio data, plural communicating devices installed in the surveillance areas for functioning as access points for building up a wireless network and a terminal device the object substance takes along or is provided with.

Claims

1. A monitoring system for surveiling an object substance, comprising:

plural movable bodies periodically patrolling surveillance areas each having a prescribed area and acquiring image data and/or audio data showing statuses during a patrol;

an area local control institution installed in each of the surveillance areas for receiving from the movable bodies and storing various data including the image data and/or audio data;

plural communicating devices installed in the surveillance areas for functioning as access points for building up a wireless network; and

a terminal device the object substance takes along or is provided with;

said terminal device normally transmitting its transmit data including identifier data peculiar to the terminal device to a nearest communication device continuously;

said communication devices, upon receiving the transmit data, producing their transmit data added with identifier data peculiar to the communication devices and present time data showing a present time and transmitting the produced transmit data to the area local control institution utilizing the wireless network;

said area local control institution grasping a position of the object substance based on the identifier data of the terminal device included in the transmit data of the communication devices, on the identifier data of the communication devices having received the transmit data of the terminal device and on the present time data having received the transmit date of the terminal device;

said terminal device, upon aberrance having occurred, transmitting continuously to a nearest communication device its transmit data including the identifier data peculiar to the terminal device and shot data showing that the aberrance has occurred;

said communication devices, upon receiving the transmit data of the terminal device, producing their transmit data having the identifier data peculiar to the communication devices and the present time data showing the present time added to the transmit data of the terminal device and transmitting the produced transmit data to the area local control institution utilizing the wireless network; and

said area local control institution grasping a fact that the aberrance has occurred relative to the object substance, an aberrance-occurring locality and an aberrance-occurring time based on the identifier data of the terminal device included in the transmit data of the communication devices, on the identifier data of the communication devices having received the transmit data of the terminal device and on the present time data having received the transmit data of the terminal device.

2. A monitoring system according to claim 1, wherein the terminal device continuously transmits the transmit data of the terminal device including the identifier data peculiar to the terminal device during detecting vibration exerted on the terminal device in response to the activity of the object substance.

3. A monitoring system according to claim 1, wherein the terminal device continuously transmits the transmit data of the terminal device including the identifier date peculiar to the terminal device during no exertion of vibration on the terminal device and, when the vibration is exerted on the terminal device, transmits the transmit data including the identifier data peculiar to the terminal device and shot data showing that the aberrance has occurred.

4. A monitoring system according to claim 1, further comprising a call stopper operated in a state of being disposed in a vicinity of the terminal device, wherein the terminal device stops the transmit data including the identifier data peculiar to the terminal device and shot data showing occurrence of aberrance upon receiving a call-stopping signal transmitted from the call stopper.

5. A monitoring system according to claim 2, further comprising a call stopper operated in a state of being disposed in a vicinity of the terminal device, wherein the terminal device stops the transmit data including the identifier data peculiar to the terminal device and shot data showing occurrence of aberrance upon receiving a call-stopping signal transmitted from the call stopper.

6. A monitoring system according to claim 3, further comprising a call stopper operated in a state of being disposed in a vicinity of the terminal device, wherein the terminal device stops the transmit data including the identifier data peculiar to the terminal device and shot data showing occurrence of aberrance upon receiving a call-stopping signal transmitted from the call stopper.

7. A monitoring system according to claim 1, wherein the terminal device measures voltage of a battery to which a driving power is supplied and, when the measured voltage is not more than a prescribed voltage, calls in it.

8. A monitoring system according to claim 7, wherein the terminal device measures the voltage of the battery only when an operation of transmitting the transmit date of the terminal device starts.

9. A monitoring system according to claim 1, wherein the area local control institution transmits a signal to a mobile communication terminal device of a user requesting surveiling the object substance in a case where the transmit data of the communication devices shows the time aberrance has occurred.

10. A monitoring system according to claim 1, wherein location information of the movable bodies is transmitted to the area local control institution.

11. A terminal device which a prescribed object substance takes along or is provided with and which comprises transmitting means for transmitting data to plural communication devices installed in surveillance areas each having a prescribed area and functioning as access points for building up a wireless network and control means for continuously transmitting to a nearest communication device at normal times data including identifier data peculiar to the terminal device and, when aberration occurs, continuously transmitting to the nearest communication device data including the identifier data peculiar to the terminal device and shot data showing a fact that the aberration has occurred.

12. A terminal device according to claim 11, further comprising vibration-detecting means for detecting vibration exerted on the terminal device in response to an activity of the object substance, wherein the control means causes the transmitting means to continuously transmit the data including the identifier data peculiar to the terminal device during the vibration-detecting means detecting the vibration exerted on the terminal device.

13. A terminal device according to claim 11, further comprising vibration-detecting means for detecting vibration exerted on the terminal device when moving the object substance, wherein the control means causes the transmitting means to continuously transmit the data including the identifier data peculiar to the terminal device during the vibration-detecting means failing to detect the vibration of the terminal device and, when the vibration-detecting means has detected the vibration of the terminal device, to continuously transmit data including the identifier data peculiar to the terminal device and the shot data showing the fact that the aberration has occurred.

14. A terminal device according to claim 11, further comprising a call stopper disposed in a vicinity of the terminal device and operated to transmit a call-stopping signal and means for receiving the call-stopping signal, wherein the control means causes the transmitting means to stop transmitting the data including the identifier data peculiar to the terminal device and the shot data showing the fact that the aberration has occurred.

15. A terminal device according to claim 12, further comprising a call stopper disposed in a vicinity of the terminal device and operated to transmit a call-stopping signal and means for receiving the call-stopping signal, wherein the control means causes the transmitting means to stop transmitting the data including the identifier data peculiar to the terminal device and the shot data showing the fact that the aberration has occurred.

16. A terminal device according to claim 13, further comprising a call stopper disposed in a vicinity of the terminal device and operated to transmit a call-stopping signal and means for receiving the call-stopping signal, wherein the control means causes the transmitting means to stop transmitting the data including the identifier data peculiar to the terminal device and the shot data showing the fact that the aberration has occurred.

17. A terminal device according to claim 11, further comprising prescribed calling means, wherein the control means measures voltage of a battery to which a driving power is supplied and, when the measured voltage is not more than a prescribed voltage, causes the prescribed calling means to call in it.

18. A terminal device according to claim 15, wherein the control means measures the voltage of the battery only when an operation of transmitting the data starts.