METHOD OF CONFIGURING A SMART MOBILE DEVICE FOR REMOTE CONTROL OF A TARGET PROCESS

A method of configuring a smart mobile device for remote control of a target process, the device including a tag reader, an interface to a communications network, and an operating system capable of dispatching a URI to be handled by a URI handler selected from among a plurality of URI handlers that are installed on the mobile device, the method including the steps of: reading, with the tag reader, a data tag that is associated with the target process and includes the specific URI to be dispatched by the operating system; installing, on the mobile device, a local configuration service which is a URI handler capable of: parsing a specific URI that is related to the target process, connecting, via the communications network and on the basis of parameters inferred from the parsed URI, to an external configuration service for downloading a mobile client application for controlling the target process, the mobile client application being another URI handler, and returning the specific URI to the operating system, thereby causing the same to call up the mobile client application.