Patent ID: 8351680

Claim:
A method for servicing and/or monitoring a field device of process and automation technology, comprising the steps of: taking at least one photograph of at least one section of the field device, wherein the field device possesses a housing, which housing is embodied in such a manner that information concerning an Internet address is encoded in the section from which Internet address data concerning the field device can be obtained; and evaluating and/or processing the photograph in such a manner, that there results at least one piece of information concerning an access location for field device data related to the field device, such that a request for data is made to the access location, wherein: the at least one piece of information about the access location is the Internet address, the photograph is the starting point for the request and that the essential information for the request is obtained from the photograph; and that, in response to the request for data, field device data are supplied from the access location.