Patent ID: 8787202

Claim:
A method for providing remote monitoring and control of remote processes comprising: (a) establishing communications between a remote site and a control center by using a hardwired one to one connection protocol and a wireless communications medium; (b) sending data from a plurality of the remote processes residing at said remote site to said control center using said wireless communications medium; (c) storing said received data at said control center as a synchronized time series at said control center with up to date data at the remote site; (d) monitoring said stored data at said control center as a synchronized time series at the remote site (e) receiving input at said remote site from said control center over said wireless communications medium for establishing a plurality of control loops; and (f) maintaining the reliability of said wireless communications medium at a high reliability level of the hardwired one to one connection protocol, wherein the high reliability level is less than about 1 error in substantially 1 million to 5 million message transmissions, wherein when said data is a RS232 signaling message a threshold error rate for retransmission of said signaling message is set to a predetermined value of a number of errors that can be accepted in said RS232 signaling message before a retransmissions of said RS232 signaling message.