1. A method, for a monitoring device to monitor member activities and to profile behavior, comprising the steps of: monitoring, through a monitoring port, member activities and, upon detecting an activity, updating with the detected activity individual behavior variables and collective behavior variables stored in a storage unit; comparing, by the controller, the updated individual behavior variables and the collective behavior variables against associated threshold conditions; if any threshold condition is met, issuing an alert event, through an user interface, to notify designated personnel; upon receiving an alert event, the designated personnel decides whether to manually redefine the associated conditions or to ignore the alert event; and if the alert event is ignored, the associated conditions are automatically redefined by the processor.