MTN 1 is an application that allows technicians, for the largest manufacturer of commercial water coolers, to track their assets, report on repairs performed, and ultimately provide “hard data” on which Reports can be generated for these activities. MTN 1 accomplishes this through use of Native access to an iOS camera, back-end logic to translate that data into machine-readable code, validate this information against selected customers, while in real-time updating, writing, and making calls to a database containing all the MTN’s assets.