Patent ID: 8857704

Claim:
A method for obtaining, with a mobile device having internet access and scanning capability, operational data from a remotely located device regarding the remotely located device, comprising: manufacturing a device network radio modem; providing provisioning and activation of the device with a communication network provider during a device manufacturing and distribution process wherein the communication network supplier supplies a network from one of the group consisting of: a wide area network, a local area network, a personal area network and a ethernet network; providing provisioning of the device with a cloud data services provider during the device manufacturing and distribution process; remotely locating the device from a user within a device network, the device and device network in operative communication with the communication network supplier and the cloud data services provider; automatically joining the device with the cloud data services provider and the communication network supplier upon power up by the end user; obtaining device-specific data from the manufactured device; embedding the device-specific data obtained on an optically scannable identification label; attaching the optically scannable identification label to the manufactured device; entering the device-specific data in a database; scanning the optically scannable identification label with the mobile device to obtain access to the manufactured device and to view the database data regarding the remotely located device; using the mobile device, powering up the accessed manufactured device; and using the mobile device, communicating with the device to obtain real time operational data.