ABSENT HOUSE PATROL SYSTEM AND METERING TERMINAL

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an absent house patrol system that can properly and flexibly inspect a state of absent houses and inform absentees about a result of the inspection. SOLUTION: A host computer 2 includes a customer database 21 for storing location information of absent houses H and patrol items for inspecting a state of the absent houses H or the like, and an entry section for entering patrol results to metering terminals 4. The host computer 2 downloads the location information of the absent houses H to be patrolled and the patrol items or the like to the metering terminals 4, and each of the metering terminals 4 uploads the patrol results inspected and entered on the basis of the patrol items to the host computer 2. Then the host computer 2 transmits the patrol results to information terminals U of customers of the absent houses H (absentees) via the Internet N2. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI