Patent ID: 7557701

Claim:
A monitoring system for a building, comprising: a plurality of detection devices mounted on each floor or in each monitoring area of said building for detecting occurrence of an emergency event; a plurality of cameras for imaging each floor or each monitoring area of said building; a plurality of floor devices mounted on each floor or in each monitoring area and including a display unit for displaying preset information, a touch panel unit which may be touched to select a point or points of emergency contact displayed on said display unit, and a call device that performs a call with the point of emergency contact as selected; and a monitoring center device mounted in a monitoring center of said building and including a display unit for displaying the preset information, a touch panel unit which may be touched to select a point or points of emergency contact displayed on said display unit, and a call device that performs call with the point or points of emergency contact as selected; wherein said detection device upon detection of an emergency event transmits emergency event information, inclusive of contents and a site of said emergency event information, to each of said floor devices and to said monitoring center unit; each of said floor devices and said monitoring center device display, upon receipt of said emergency event information, at least said emergency event information and a point or points of emergency contact; each of said floor devices and said monitoring center device display image information as taken by said camera related to said detection device which has detected said emergency event.