Abstract: A data acquisition platform in which self-configuring devices communicate with a database through an intermediate wireless access point. The database may store data acquired by and uploaded from self-configuring devices and store information that may be downloaded to self-configuring devices and used to self-configure. In a fleet management embodiment, self-configuring devices include OBD data capture devices installed in a motor vehicle that is part of an entity's vehicle fleet. The platform may support an auto-connect feature in which wireless network access information needed by self-configuring devices to login to a wireless LAN is encrypted and wirelessly broadcasted by the access point. The network identifier may comply with formatting protocol that enables self-configuring devices to recognize encrypted network identifiers. In WiFi embodiments, the network identifier may be an encrypted SSID or an SSID that includes unencrypted and encrypted parts.