SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONNECTING, CONFIGURING AND TESTING NEW WIRELESS DEVICES AND APPLICATIONS
A system, apparatus, and method are provided for connecting, configuring and testing new wireless devices and applications. For example, one embodiment of a computer-implemented method for enabling a trial wireless device comprises: automatically pre-provisioning one or more trial SIM 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 trial M2M device includes testing and monitoring program code which, when the trial 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 SIM card and the trial M2M device, the test operations including determining whether the SIM card is correctly provisioned for the wireless network; determining whether the trial M2M wireless device is operating properly; and determining the existence of wireless data connectivity.
1 . A control center server for enabling a wireless device to operate on a wireless cellular network comprising:
a processor; and
a memory coupled with the processor, wherein the memory is configured to provide the processor with instructions which when executed cause the processor to:
receive user data representative of a user from the wireless device;
automatically pre-provision one or more SIM cards for operation on the wireless cellular network on behalf of the user;
automatically pre-configure the wireless device, wherein the wireless device includes testing program code which enables a connection to the wireless cellular network and executes a plurality of test operations for testing the wireless device and the one or more SIM cards; and
receive results data generated by the plurality of test operations from the wireless device, the results data is utilized for analyzing and troubleshooting connectivity problems associated with the wireless device.