An apparatus and system are disclosed for real-time monitoring and control
of field assets. A monitoring device may be coupled to a field asset to
determine the occurrence of one or more error conditions. Error
conditions may be detected either as they occur or by testing the field
asset at timed intervals. Upon detection of one or more error conditions,
the monitoring device may initiate one or more corrective sequences to
resolve the error condition. Alternatively, the monitoring device may
notify a network operations center of the detected error condition. Users
may access the network operations center via an Internet-enabled remote
device. From the Internet-enabled remote device, the user may view status
information concerning one or more field assets. The user may also use
the Internet-enabled remote device to instruct the network operations
center to issue commands to be executed by the monitoring device such
that the error conditions on the field asset may be corrected.