Patent ID: 7440809

Claim:
A system for remotely monitoring building equipment, the system comprising: at least one item of building equipment; a non-PLC controller communicably connected to the at least one item of building equipment to receive data from the building equipment, the non-PLC controller having a web server, a microprocessor and a memory storing a computer program executable by the microprocessor, the computer program comprising computer instructions to: gather data from the connected building equipment; capture the data in CGI scripts; populate the data into tags provided in an HTML web page generated by the web server of the non-PLC controller; permit a user to log on to the web server using an HMI device; prompt the user to enter a user name and password; recognize the user name and password and associate the user name and password with a stored user profile having an access level for the recognized user; and send data using the web server to the user; wherein, the data sent to the user corresponds with the access level and includes instructions to generate a display for the user having predetermined display characteristics associated with the stored user profile.