Patent ID: 7228129

Claim:
A method of monitoring and controlling remote equipment to minimize wireless airtime, the method comprising: constructing a protocol to include a data string for use in an interface device, the selection, configuration, and definition of data to be included within the data string fully customizable by a user via a server computer in a user adjustable format to minimize wireless airtime; downloading the constructed protocol to the interface device; the interface device selectively triggering transmittal of an exception message with the protocol over a control channel of a wireless mobile telephone network as a function of user specified operational conditions; the interface device selectively triggering transmittal of a datafile message over a voice channel of the wireless telephone network with another protocol as a function of the user specified operational conditions; and selectively generating an alert message to a user device as a function of at least one of the exception message or the datafile message, or combinations thereof and consideration of a user configured message profile.