Abstract: An event driven, network enabled off-site management listening system (“Listener”) manages remote devices by listening to unsolicited events communicated from devices connected to the Internet, and from a Mission Controller. The Listener listens for messages, decrypts them, and writes the message to the message queue where a Message Decoder retrieves the message. The Message Decoder decodes the messages and updates the database with location and device specific status information. The Listener also takes messages from the Mission Controller to be executed in a specific sequence, and transmits those messages over the Internet to the specific locations and devices as specified by the Mission Controller. Web-based applications allow end users to monitor and control any device or component connected to the Home Central system from any Internet-enabled device or public communications network.