A network household electric control system has a household electric
appliance controlling ASP server installed as an external server (300) on
the Internet. When household electric appliances (150) are to be
controlled from an operation terminal (130) in the house of a customer
through a home server (120), the GUI is transparently transmitted from an
external server to the operation terminal and is displayed with the
browser so that the household electric appliances are monitored and
controlled through that GUI.