Patent ID: 7184860

Claim:
A monitoring system for remotely monitoring in-store equipment comprising a controller provided in each store constructed and arranged to monitor and control in-store equipment and a monitoring computer connected to the controller in the store through a communication line, wherein the controller comprises data transmission means for transmitting to the monitoring computer data related to its respective in-store equipment and predetermined measurement data, and display means for displaying power saving advice information fed from the monitoring computer, and the monitoring computer comprises power saving advice information production means for producing power saving advice information for efficiently operating each in-store equipment on the basis of the data received from the controller, and power saving advice information transmission means for transmitting to the controller the produced power saving advice information and wherein when the in-store equipment is illuminating equipment, the data transmission means transmits data related to inside-store illumination set by a user and an outside-store illumination measured value from the controller to the monitoring computer, and the power saving advice information production means comprises means for calculating, on the basis of historical data related to the outside-store illumination measured values received from the controller, historical data related to weather forecasting, and weather forecasting for tomorrow, an outside-store illumination estimated values for times during tomorrow, and means for calculating, on the basis of the obtained outside-store illumination estimated values for times during tomorrow and the set inside-store illumination data received from the controller, recommended inside-store illumination values for times during tomorrow.