An apparatus and system are disclosed for the real-time monitoring and control
of field assets. The monitoring device, operable to couple to a field asset, may
be designed to leverage one or more technologies included in the field asset or
as a stand-alone unit and is preferably operable to detect one or more error conditions
thereon. The error conditions may be detected either as they occur or during testing
intervals. Once an error condition is detected, the monitoring device may initiate
one or more corrective sequences to resolve the error condition or, alternatively,
the monitoring device may notify a network operations center via a wireless network.
Accessing a network operations center from an Internet-enabled remote device, a
user may view status information for one or more field assets, issue commands to
correct error conditions as well as perform other functions.
