Automatic provisioning of an m2m device having a wifi interface

A computer-implemented method for automatically provisioning a machine-to-machine (M2M) device, comprising the steps of:

• receiving, by a M2M server associated with a service provider, device information of an M2M device from a WiFi M2M gateway;
• registering the device information in a server device database (SDD);
• transmitting a message with the device information of the M2M device as a payload to a domain name server (DNS);
• receiving a fully qualified domain name (FDQN) associated with the M2M device from the DNS;
• and
• transmitting the FDQN to the WiFi M2M gateway.

A computer system, comprising:

• a memory;
• a processing device, coupled to the memory;
• and
• an operating system hosted by the computer system, having access to the memory and use of the processor, the operating system configured to:
• identify, by a scanning procedure, a WiFi network identifier being broadcast by a M2M device initially set in an ad hoc mode;
• join a WiFi ad hoc network set by the M2M device;
• obtain device information from the M2M device over a WiFi connection;
• transmit a command to the M2M device to switch from the ad hoc mode to an infrastructure mode;
• store the device information of the M2M device in a gateway device database (GDD);
• register the M2M device with an M2M server associated with a service provider based on the device information;
• and
• receive a fully qualified domain name (FQDN) associated with the M2M device from the M2M server.

A computer system, comprising:

• a memory;
• a processing device, coupled to the memory;
• and
• an operating system hosted by the computer system, having access to the memory and use of the processor, the operating system configured to:
• receive device information of an M2M device from a WiFi M2M gateway;
• register the device information in a server device database (SDD);
• transmit a message with the device information as a payload to a domain name server (DNS);
• receive a fully qualified domain name (FDQN) associated with the M2M device from the DNS;
• and
• transmit the FDQN to the WiFi M2M gateway.