Patent ID: 9220005
Filing Date: 2015-12-22
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for monitoring a plurality of different devices of a customer via a mobile endpoint device, comprising: detecting, by a processor of the mobile endpoint device, the plurality of different devices of the customer as the mobile endpoint device is migrating around a customer site, wherein each one of the plurality of different devices has a different communication capability and the mobile endpoint device has each communication capability of the plurality of different devices and a wide area network communication capability; registering, by the processor of the mobile endpoint device, the plurality of different devices that are detected with an asset management system, wherein the asset management system is located remotely from the one or more plurality of different devices; monitoring, by the processor of the mobile endpoint device, the plurality of different devices; transmitting, by the processor of the mobile endpoint device, one or more operation parameters associated with the plurality of different devices to the asset management system; receiving, by the processor of the mobile endpoint device, a control message from the asset management system for one of the plurality of different devices; and controlling the one of the plurality of different devices in accordance with the control message.