a system is provided for monitoring a sunless tanning device or numerous sunless tanning devices within a single or multiple facilities . the system includes monitoring devices within the sunless tanning devices for collecting and relaying usage and diagnostic information . the system also includes a communications interface for receiving and transmitting data transmissions from the sunless device to a central supervisory monitoring location . a related method is also provided for determining and responding to occurrences of an event associated with an alarm trigger , the usage of the sunless tanning device on a real time or set time bases , or general update or changes to operational parameters .