Patent ID: 7212103
Filing Date: 2007-05-01
Classification: B60R,G01V

Abstract:
1. A monitoring system for monitoring vehicles in order to sense the occurrence of an abnormality, comprising: vibration sensing units each of which is attached to a different one of the vehicles and senses a vibration of that vehicle; a sensed time specifying unit which specifies a time at which a vibration is sensed by one of the vibration sensing units; and an abnormality determining unit which determines, when one of the vehicles senses a vibration by the associated vibration sensing unit, whether the vibration is caused by preparations for theft vis-à-vis said one of the vehicles or the vibration is caused by environmental influences on said one of the vehicles, the abnormality determining unit performing a determination based on sensing results obtained by the respective vibration sensing units of the vehicles within a predetermined time period and a result of specification by the sensed time specifying unit that more than one of the vibration sensing units senses a vibration within the predetermined time period.