A method for providing information about an individual coordinate measuring device to an owner or a user of the coordinate measuring device, the method using a computer and comprising - providing, in a computational environment, a digital-twin database comprising individual digital twins for a multitude of coordinate measuring devices, each individual digital twin comprising information about the respective individual coordinate measuring device; - assigning an individual code to each of the multitude of coordinate measuring devices; - providing the individual code of a first coordinate measuring device on the first coordinate measuring device; and - pairing the first coordinate measuring device with a mobile device of the owner or user of the first coordinate measuring device, particularly wherein the the mobile device is a smartphone or a tablet computer, wherein the pairing comprises - capturing, by the mobile device, the individual code of the first coordinate measuring device; - establishing a remote data connection between the mobile device and the computational environment; - sending the captured individual code together with an identifier of the mobile device or of a user of the mobile device from the mobile device to the computational environment via the established data connection; and - verifying, at the computational environment, the sent individual code and, in case of a positive result of the verification, storing the identifier of the mobile device assigned to the digital twin of the first coordinate measuring device, wherein the method further comprises - sending a request from the mobile device to the computational environment for information about the first coordinate measuring device together with the identifier of the mobile device; - determining a validity of the request based on the identifier; - retrieving the requested information from the individual digital twin of the first coordinate measuring device and sending the requested information to the mobile device; and - providing the information about the first coordinate measuring device on a display of the mobile device to the user of the mobile device. - providing, in a computational environment, a digital-twin database comprising individual digital twins for a multitude of coordinate measuring devices, each individual digital twin comprising information about the respective individual coordinate measuring device; - assigning an individual code to each of the multitude of coordinate measuring devices; - providing the individual code of a first coordinate measuring device on the first coordinate measuring device; and - pairing the first coordinate measuring device with a mobile device of the owner or user of the first coordinate measuring device, particularly wherein the the mobile device is a smartphone or a tablet computer, - capturing, by the mobile device, the individual code of the first coordinate measuring device; - establishing a remote data connection between the mobile device and the computational environment; - sending the captured individual code together with an identifier of the mobile device or of a user of the mobile device from the mobile device to the computational environment via the established data connection; and - verifying, at the computational environment, the sent individual code and, in case of a positive result of the verification, storing the identifier of the mobile device assigned to the digital twin of the first coordinate measuring device, - sending a request from the mobile device to the computational environment for information about the first coordinate measuring device together with the identifier of the mobile device; - determining a validity of the request based on the identifier; - retrieving the requested information from the individual digital twin of the first coordinate measuring device and sending the requested information to the mobile device; and - providing the information about the first coordinate measuring device on a display of the mobile device to the user of the mobile device.