Computer software for monitoring industrial plant sensors and assets and providing status information and analytics, namely, abnormal situations, diagnostics, asset status, asset health, energy costs, emissions loss, alerts, production loss, corrosion, efficiency, health indexes, estimated remaining life, estimated total life, network status, network load, pressure relief status, vibration, fouling, location; computer software for collecting data from assets in an industrial process, namely, process sensors, process controllers, communication devices, steam traps, pumps, pressure gauges, heat exchangers, pressure relief devices, network management devices, network gateways, power sources, cooling tower components, vessels for containing process fluids, pipes for transporting process fluids, devices for determining location.