Patent ID: 7864044

Claim:
A system for monitoring an unsupervised worker working at a monitored location of a system subscriber and generating and providing a report based on the monitoring, the system comprising: a plurality of sensors provided at said monitored location, each of said sensors being operatively coupled to an item located within or forming a part of the monitored location for generating sensed data relating to the respective item; a base station provided at said monitored location, each of said sensors being in at least one of wireless and wired communication with said base station to enable said each of said sensors to transmit the respective sensed data generated thereby to said base station to create a compilation of sensed data at said base station, a service provider server located remotely from said monitored location and operated by a third party service provider, said system subscriber having a service subscription with said third party service provider for the monitoring, said base station being in electronic communication with said service provider server through a network, said service provider server receiving at least a portion of said compilation of sensed data from said base station through said network and storing said at least a portion of said compilation of sensed data as stored sensed data, said service provider server being adapted to generate a report based on at least a portion of said stored sensed data; and a computing device under the control of said system subscriber and in electronic communication with said service provider server through said network, said computing device being adapted to: (i) selectively request and receive said report from said service provider server through said network, (ii) display said report, (iii) selectively generate configuration data for one or more of said sensors, and (iv) transmit said configuration data to said service provider server through said network; wherein said configuration data is transmitted to said base station from said service provider server through said network and wherein said configuration data is received by said base station and used to control the operation of said one or more of said sensors.