To provide an imaging apparatus for monitoring and an imaging system for monitoring which transmits an image at before and after the occurrence of abnormality to a terminal of each home or a server of a monitoring center, when the abnormality is occurred.

The imaging apparatus for monitoring which transmits at least an image and the position of circumference to a monitoring server for monitoring circumference environment of an object person to be monitored at timing of occurrence of the abnormality, has an imaging unit for imaging an image; a sound detecting unit for detecting a sound; an acceleration acquiring unit for detecting acceleration; a position detecting unit for detecting a position; and a control unit for controlling transmission of the image and the position, by detecting the timing of the occurrence of the abnormality, based on the detected data of the sound and the acceleration.