Abstract: A monitoring system indicating the condition of a plant at any time and from any place by particularly utilizing a small graphical content such as the display of a handy cellular phone. In particular, necessary equipment information can be quickly extracted from among many pieces of equipment to be monitored in a large-scale plant including a lot of monitored objects. The monitoring system includes a structured equipment information storage part for storing structured equipment information including equipment information on pieces of equipment and relational information describing relations among the pieces of equipment, and a monitored equipment extraction part for extracting a set of pieces of related equipment information associated with a piece of equipment of interest based on the structured equipment information with the equipment of interest, which is separately designated, being set as a base point of extraction.

Abstract: A monitoring system is provided which is capable of grasping the condition of a plant at any time and from any place by particularly utilizing a small graphical content such as the display of a handy cellular phone, etc. In particular, necessary equipment information can be quickly extracted from among many pieces of equipment to be monitored in a large-scale plant including a lot of monitored objects. The monitoring system includes a structured equipment information storage part for storing structured equipment information including equipment information on a plurality of pieces of equipment and relational information describing relations among the pieces of equipment, and a monitored equipment extraction part for extracting a set of pieces of related equipment information associated with a piece of equipment of interest based on the structured equipment information with the equipment of interest, which is separately designated, being set as a base point of extraction.