Patent ID: 7668671

Claim:
A system for monitoring, gathering, processing, integrating and reporting real time resource consumption, resource delivery and equipment states for at least one building comprising: a plurality of monitoring devices associated with said building resource delivery and utilization structures; a plurality of metering devices associated with said building resource delivery and utilization structures; a first data collection and processing device at said building connected to and gathering data from each monitoring device and metering device associated with said building; a second data collection and processing device remote to said building for coordinating universal time among all metering devices and gathering data from said first data collection and processing device; a third data collection and processing device remote to said building for converting field surveys of said building, infrastructure data of said building, and resource consumption of said building into at least one database; a fourth data collection and processing device remote to said building for manipulating resource data gathered from said second data collection and processing device and converting said data into resource billing data; a fifth data collection and processing device connected to said first, second, third, and fourth data collection and processing devices remote to said building for coordinating and integrating all data processed by said first, second, third, and fourth data collection and processing devices into a relational database available in real time, wherein the first data collection and processing device monitors electrical loads for said building resource delivery and utilization structures and equipment in real time; said system monitoring alternative resource services available for said one building in addition to conventional remotely supplied power; and said system integrating delivery of said alternative resource services with said conventional remotely supplied power.