Patent ID: 7792256

Claim:
A system for remotely monitoring, controlling, and managing one or more remote premises, comprising: a server system operable to communicate with one or more remote client systems, the client systems being remote from the one or more premises; a database system associated with the server system and operable to store configuration information for a plurality of devices located at a remote premises, the plurality of devices comprising one or more camera devices and one or more facility management devices; the server system operable to: receive from the one or more premises device data for the one or more facility management devices located at the remote premises; initiate storage of at least a portion of the received device data in the database system; and communicate, in response to a request received from a particular one of the one or more remote client systems for device data for at least one facility management device, stored device data for the at least one facility management device responsive to the request to the particular client system.