Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Yoko Tanno

Jin Murata

Kazuya Shiosaki

Yuuki Ootaki

In one embodiment, a remote monitoring system includes a monitoring apparatus displaying a screen for monitoring a power plant, a remote monitoring apparatus displaying the screen transferred from the monitoring apparatus, and a management server managing information regarding the remote monitoring apparatus. The management server includes an activation management module to acquire apparatus identification information for identifying the remote monitoring apparatus, and to return activation permission to the remote monitoring apparatus if the apparatus identification information matches apparatus identification information registered previously. The remote monitoring apparatus includes a secret information storing region to store the apparatus identification information, and to limit software accessible to the secret information storing region to BIOS software of the remote monitoring apparatus, and an activation module to acquire the activation permission from the activation management module by providing the apparatus identification information in the secret information storing region to the activation management module.

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Fuchu, Japan

Yoko Tanno