Patent ID: 7952485

Claim:
A method of remote monitoring for a plurality of customers, each having at least one remote unit comprising a sensor, a transceiver and indicia of an identifier, the method comprising: receiving for each of a plurality of customers a registration of a remote unit, each registration of a remote unit comprising receiving: the identifier of the remote unit; one or more sensor output limits of the sensor of the remote unit; and an indication of one or more alert actions; in response to receiving a registration for each remote unit, establishing one or more scheduled reporting times for the remote unit; receiving reports from the remote units, each report sent using the transceiver of the respective remote unit and each report comprising an indication of the output of the sensor of the remote unit; and when the indication in a report received from a remote unit indicates that the output of the sensor of the remote unit is outside the sensor output limits of the remote unit, sending an alert in accordance with at least one of the one or more indicated alert actions for the remote unit; when no report is received from the remote unit at a scheduled reporting time for the remote unit, sending an alert in accordance with at least one of the one or more indicated alert actions for the remote unit.