Patent ID: 8599012

Claim:
A method of remote monitoring of one or more environmental parameters using a plurality of remote units for a plurality of customers, each customer of the plurality of customers having at least one remote unit of the plurality of remote units, each remote unit comprising a sensor and a transceiver and being associated with an identifier, the method comprising: receiving, for each customer of the plurality of customers, registration information for a remote unit to be registered, wherein receiving the registration information for the remote unit to be registered comprises receiving: one or more alarm conditions relating to sensor output of the sensor of the remote unit to be registered, and an indication of one or more alert actions to be taken when one or more of the one or more alarm conditions is met; for each registered remote unit of the plurality of remote units, following receipt of registration information for the registered remote unit, establishing one or more scheduled reporting times for the registered remote unit; receiving a report from a registered remote unit of the plurality of remote units, the report comprising an indication of an output of the sensor of the registered remote unit; and in response to determining that the report was received without error, acknowledging the report by transmitting at least one message to the registered remote unit, the at least one message comprising at least one value set based on an evaluation of the output of the sensor; in response to determining, based at least in part on the indication of the output in the report, that the output of the sensor satisfies one or more of the one or more alarm conditions, initiating an alert action of the one or more alert actions indicated by the registration information for the registered remote unit.