A manner of facilitating management of remote devices, especially remote sensory devices, for example Zigbee devices, used in a home or small business. In one aspect, the present invention is a system for managing remote devices including an ACS and a proxy device, where the ACS and the proxy device are configured to communicate with each other at least in part using a data model including a data object and an associated device object. In a preferred embodiment, data object includes a network sub-object and an application sub-object.