Discovery of Instrument-Related Assets and Two-Way Communication with Those Assets Between Network Environments

A method of registering one or more assets in one or more locations, the method comprising:

• receiving, at a registry service, one or more beacons multicast by the one or more assets, the one or more beacons comprising one or more data;
• receiving, at the registry service, one or more URIs associated with the one or more assets;
• verifying, by the registry service, the one or more assets by calling to the one or more URIs upon receiving the one or more beacons;
• facilitating, by the registry service, communication between the one or more assets by providing the one or more data to a requesting resource, wherein the communication comprises a token-based authentication;
• and
• creating, by the registry service, one or more tunnels between the one or more locations to facilitate communication between one or more assets in different of the one or more locations.