SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONNECTING, CONFIGURING AND TESTING NEW WIRELESS DEVICES AND APPLICATIONS

摘要

A system, apparatus, and method are provided for connecting, configuring and testing new wireless devices and applications One embodiment of a computer-implemented method for enabling a trial wireless device comprises automatically pre-provisioning one or more trial 81 M cards for operation on a particular wireless cellular network on behalf of a prospective customer, automatically pre-configuring a trial wireless machine-to-machine ("M2M") device on behalf of the prospective customer, wherein the tpal M2M device includes testing and monitoring program code which, when the tpal M2M device is connected to a computer system, performs the operations of automatically connecting to the wireless cellular network execute a plurality of test operations for testing the 81 M card and the trial M2M device, the test operations including determining whether the 81 M card is correctly provisioned for the wireless network, determining whether the tpal M2M wireless device is operating properly, and determining the existence of wireless data connectivity.