Patent ID: 7447762

Claim:
A power monitoring system including multiple power monitoring devices; and an Ethernet communication device operative within at least a selected one of said power monitoring devices, said Ethernet communications device including: a pair of on-board Ethernet ports for connecting said Ethernet communication device and said selected power monitoring device to an Ethernet via either twisted pair wires or optical fiber, said Ethernet ports comprising a single physical interface chip capable of supporting dual physical Ethernet media types; an on-board serial port for connecting said Ethernet communication device and said selected power monitoring device to other power monitoring devices connected in a daisy chain; a processor coupled to both said Ethernet ports and to said serial port for controlling communications via said Ethernet ports and said serial port; and a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) server operating on said processor for dynamically gathering, formatting and verifying real-time information from both said selected power monitoring device and said other power monitoring devices connected to said serial port in a daisy chain, for communicating with an internet browser, and for accessing Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) pages.