Patent ID: 7579944

Claim:
An information provision system having a vehicle unit disposed on a vehicle, a driver unit held by a driver of the vehicle, and a facility unit provided in a facility that can be visited by the driver comprising: a condition detector in the vehicle unit for detecting a current vehicle condition regarding various parts in the vehicle; an absence detector in the vehicle unit for detecting driver's absence from the vehicle based on the current vehicle condition detected by the condition detector; a vehicle side transmitter in the vehicle unit for transmitting the current vehicle condition detected by the condition detector in association with a normal unattended condition that is defined as a normal condition of an unattended vehicle as relevant information when the driver's absence is detected by the absence detector; an information storage in the driver unit for storing the relevant information transmitted from the vehicle unit; a driver side transmitter in the driver unit for transmitting the relevant information stored in the information storage to the facility unit; a difference detector in the facility unit for detecting a degree of difference between the current vehicle condition and the normal unattended condition in the relevant information; and a notification device in the facility unit for providing a notice according to a detection result derived from the difference detector.