To provide a user-friendly system when applied to a facility monitoring system for photographing a person inside a facility and monitoring security inside the facility.
When a kindergartener passes on an IC tag receiver 102 installed inside the facility, tag information is read from an IC tag 101 carried by the kindergartener by the IC tag receiver 102 and the position of the kindergartener is specified in a position specifying part 105a. On the basis of the position of the kindergartener thus specified, the time the kindergartener stays at the same position is calculated by a photographing control part 105b, and if the staying time exceeds prescribed photographing start time, the kindergartener is photographed with a camera 103 and a photographed image is recorded in a recorder 108.