US Patent 9965564 Apparatus and method of displaying hardware status using augmented reality

A method of accessing equipment status information in a data center includes detecting, by a mobile computing device, a fiduciary marker within at least one image captured by an image capture device, decoding the equipment identification data from the fiduciary marker, providing the equipment identification data to a data center management system for the data center through a communications network, receiving status information for the piece of equipment from the data center management system through the communication network, and displaying the status information on a display screen of the mobile computing device. The fiduciary marker is configured to contain encoded equipment identification data associated with a piece of equipment.