Patent ID: 6885936

Claim:
An information provision system comprising a center apparatus for providing information and a terminal for receiving information, wherein said terminal includes: current position measurement means for measuring a current position of the terminal; and a transmitter for intermittently transmitting information on the current position measured by said current position measurement means to the center apparatus, and said center apparatus includes: terminal position management means for managing a position of said terminal based on information on the current position received from the terminal; accident/disaster information management means for collecting information on an accident or a disaster and managing the collected information according to occurrence location and occurrence time of the accident or the disaster; warning information generation means for generating warning information to be sent to the terminal based on the collected information on the accident or the disaster; warning terminal identification means for identifying a terminal positioned in the neighborhood of the location of the accident or the disaster, or a terminal moving toward the neighborhood of said location based on the information managed by said terminal position management means; and a warning transmitter for transmitting said warning information to the terminal identified by the warning terminal identification means; and wherein said warning information generation means assigns said warning information a warning level classified based on the time elapsed from occurrence time of an accident or a disaster.