There is provided an apparatus including a storage unit configured to store, in association with each of a plurality of devices existing in a plant, a storage address of measurement data which is related; a detection unit configured to detect, among the plurality of devices, a target device that a user is looking at; an acquisition unit configured to acquire, from the storage address associated with the target device, measurement data related to the target device; and a display unit configured to display a content acquired by the acquisition unit.

A visual display method involves storing, in multiple portable display units, visual information to individually be displayed by each of the multiple portable display units located within a venue in response to instructions broadcast wirelessly for receipt by at least some of the multiple portable display units within the venue; establishing, for each portable display unit within the venue, a first ad hoc address based upon each portable display unit's physical location; and wirelessly broadcasting instructions for receipt by the portable display units instructing at least some or the multiple portable display units to display a specific portion of the visual information associated with their respective first ad hoc addresses, so that each of the multiple portable display units will display their specific portions of the visual information associated with their ad hoc addresses as specified by the broadcast instructions.

A monitoring and reporting system involves a master control unit; multiple geographically dispersed monitor units, each comprising a base unit including a self addressing radio controller repeater having at least a microcontroller, a global positioning system (GPS) receiver, and a multi-band communications transceiver; multiple sensors, communicatively coupled to the base unit, including at least one motion, temperature, and electrical sensor; each of the monitor units self-addresses according to complex self-addressing and communicates with at least one other of the monitor units to collectively form an ad hoc network; at least a first of the monitor units operates as a repeater with respect to communications received from either or both (i) of a second of the monitor units located at an equipment location or (ii) the master control unit; and the second of the monitor units will take local readings and report at least one to the master control unit.

There is provided an apparatus including a storage unit configured to store, in association with each of a plurality of devices existing in a plant, a storage address of measurement data which is related; a detection unit configured to detect, among the plurality of devices, a target device that a user is looking at; an acquisition unit configured to acquire, from the storage address associated with the target device, measurement data related to the target device; and a display unit configured to display a content acquired by the acquisition unit.