FIELD

The disclosure relates to a monitoring system, and more particularly to an environment monitoring system for detecting abnormality in an environment.

BACKGROUND

Environmental safety has been an important issue in the industry, and it involves not only preventing and handling disasters (e.g., fire, toxic gas leakage, etc.), but also taking actions against intruders.

A conventional environment monitoring system includes a plurality of sensors that are installed in an environment to be monitored. When any one of the sensors detects abnormality in the environment, it outputs a warning signal to inform a watcher to take action against the abnormality.

Although the conventional environment monitoring system is able to output the warning signal when detecting abnormality in the environment, it has the following disadvantages. The watcher would only know which one of the sensors outputted the warning signal, but not the exact location of the abnormality. In addition, if the watcher goes straight to the environment, the watcher may put him or herself in danger (for example, toxic gas leakage, fire or attack from intruders) because the watcher lacks knowledge of the exact situation.

SUMMARY

Therefore, an object of the disclosure is to provide an environment monitoring system that can alleviate at least one drawback of the prior art.

According to the disclosure, the environment monitoring system includes a number (N) of sensors, a server and a monitoring device, where N≥3. The sensors cooperatively define a monitoring area, and respectively generate multiple pieces of sense data related to the monitoring area. The server is communicably coupled to the sensors to receive the pieces of sense data respectively therefrom, determines whether at least three of the pieces of sense data are abnormal, and generates position data based on the at least three pieces of abnormal sense data when the determination is affirmative. The monitoring device includes a body, an image capturing module and a control module. The body is movable in the monitoring area. The image capturing module is mounted to the body. The control module is disposed in the body, is communicably coupled to the server to receive the position data therefrom, is electrically coupled to the body and the image capturing module, and controls the body to move to a position that corresponds to the position data.

