Device And Method For Providing External Access To Multi-Drop Bus Peripheral Devices

An electronic device for retrofitting a machine to provide external access to one or more electronic peripheral devices of the machine, the electronic device comprising:

• a slave interface configured to couple the electronic device to a machine controller of the machine via a multi-drop bus (MDB);
• a host interface configured to couple the electronic device to a first peripheral device of the one or more electronic peripheral devices of the machine, wherein the first peripheral device is configured to communicate via MDB protocol and is decoupled from the MDB of the machine;
• a wireless transceiver;
• one or more processors;
• and non-transitory memory storing one or more programs to be executed by the one or more processors, the one or more programs comprising instructions for:
• registering the electronic device as a slave to the machine controller;
• registering the first peripheral device as a slave to the electronic device;
• receiving, from a mobile device via the wireless transceiver, a request to access signals generated by the first peripheral device;
• validating the request, wherein validation of the request indicates that the mobile device is authorized, by a remote server, to access the signals generated by the first peripheral device;
• and
• sending a first reset command to the first peripheral device via the host interface, wherein the first reset command includes a directive to update a signal destination address of the first peripheral device from a controller address of the machine controller to a device address of the electronic device.