diff --git a/local-operator/.env.example b/local-operator/.env.example
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cefcaad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/local-operator/.env.example
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+# Name of the local operator, can be whatever you want no spaces or special characters
+OPERATOR_ID=local-printer
+
+# The URL of the property engine
+PROPERTY_ENGINE_URL=http://localhost:3000
+
+# PAT_TOKEN is the token for the PAT (Personal Access Token)
+PAT_TOKEN=
diff --git a/local-operator/.gitignore b/local-operator/.gitignore
index eb5a316..c5dd462 100644
--- a/local-operator/.gitignore
+++ b/local-operator/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 target
+.env
diff --git a/local-operator/Cargo.lock b/local-operator/Cargo.lock
index 618887f..4f0327c 100644
--- a/local-operator/Cargo.lock
+++ b/local-operator/Cargo.lock
@@ -563,6 +563,16 @@ dependencies = [
  "version_check",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "core-foundation"
+version = "0.9.4"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "91e195e091a93c46f7102ec7818a2aa394e1e1771c3ab4825963fa03e45afb8f"
+dependencies = [
+ "core-foundation-sys",
+ "libc",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "core-foundation-sys"
 version = "0.8.7"
@@ -817,7 +827,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "33d852cb9b869c2a9b3df2f71a3074817f01e1844f839a144f5fcef059a4eb5d"
 dependencies = [
  "libc",
- "windows-sys 0.52.0",
+ "windows-sys 0.59.0",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -947,6 +957,21 @@ dependencies = [
  "percent-encoding",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "futures"
+version = "0.3.31"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "65bc07b1a8bc7c85c5f2e110c476c7389b4554ba72af57d8445ea63a576b0876"
+dependencies = [
+ "futures-channel",
+ "futures-core",
+ "futures-executor",
+ "futures-io",
+ "futures-sink",
+ "futures-task",
+ "futures-util",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "futures-channel"
 version = "0.3.31"
@@ -1033,6 +1058,7 @@ version = "0.3.31"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "9fa08315bb612088cc391249efdc3bc77536f16c91f6cf495e6fbe85b20a4a81"
 dependencies = [
+ "futures-channel",
  "futures-core",
  "futures-io",
  "futures-macro",
@@ -1061,8 +1087,10 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "94b22e06ecb0110981051723910cbf0b5f5e09a2062dd7663334ee79a9d1286c"
 dependencies = [
  "cfg-if",
+ "js-sys",
  "libc",
  "wasi",
+ "wasm-bindgen",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -1300,6 +1328,25 @@ dependencies = [
  "pin-project-lite",
  "smallvec",
  "tokio",
+ "want",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "hyper-rustls"
+version = "0.27.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "08afdbb5c31130e3034af566421053ab03787c640246a446327f550d11bcb333"
+dependencies = [
+ "futures-util",
+ "http",
+ "hyper",
+ "hyper-util",
+ "rustls 0.23.20",
+ "rustls-pki-types",
+ "tokio",
+ "tokio-rustls 0.26.1",
+ "tower-service",
+ "webpki-roots",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -1309,12 +1356,16 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "df2dcfbe0677734ab2f3ffa7fa7bfd4706bfdc1ef393f2ee30184aed67e631b4"
 dependencies = [
  "bytes",
+ "futures-channel",
  "futures-util",
  "http",
  "http-body",
  "hyper",
  "pin-project-lite",
+ "socket2",
  "tokio",
+ "tower-service",
+ "tracing",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -1596,6 +1647,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "syn 2.0.90",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "ipnet"
+version = "2.10.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "ddc24109865250148c2e0f3d25d4f0f479571723792d3802153c60922a4fb708"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "itertools"
 version = "0.12.1"
@@ -1754,11 +1811,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "async-std",
  "brother-ql-rs",
  "dotenvy",
+ "futures",
  "image 0.25.1",
  "poem",
  "poem-openapi",
  "printpdf",
  "qrcode",
+ "reqwest",
+ "serde",
+ "serde_json",
  "thiserror 2.0.7",
  "tracing",
  "tracing-subscriber",
@@ -2268,7 +2329,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "thiserror 2.0.7",
  "time",
  "tokio",
- "tokio-rustls",
+ "tokio-rustls 0.25.0",
  "tokio-stream",
  "tokio-util",
  "tracing",
@@ -2473,6 +2534,58 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "quinn"
+version = "0.11.6"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "62e96808277ec6f97351a2380e6c25114bc9e67037775464979f3037c92d05ef"
+dependencies = [
+ "bytes",
+ "pin-project-lite",
+ "quinn-proto",
+ "quinn-udp",
+ "rustc-hash",
+ "rustls 0.23.20",
+ "socket2",
+ "thiserror 2.0.7",
+ "tokio",
+ "tracing",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "quinn-proto"
+version = "0.11.9"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "a2fe5ef3495d7d2e377ff17b1a8ce2ee2ec2a18cde8b6ad6619d65d0701c135d"
+dependencies = [
+ "bytes",
+ "getrandom",
+ "rand",
+ "ring",
+ "rustc-hash",
+ "rustls 0.23.20",
+ "rustls-pki-types",
+ "slab",
+ "thiserror 2.0.7",
+ "tinyvec",
+ "tracing",
+ "web-time",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "quinn-udp"
+version = "0.5.8"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "52cd4b1eff68bf27940dd39811292c49e007f4d0b4c357358dc9b0197be6b527"
+dependencies = [
+ "cfg_aliases",
+ "libc",
+ "once_cell",
+ "socket2",
+ "tracing",
+ "windows-sys 0.52.0",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "quote"
 version = "0.6.13"
@@ -2638,6 +2751,51 @@ version = "0.8.5"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "2b15c43186be67a4fd63bee50d0303afffcef381492ebe2c5d87f324e1b8815c"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "reqwest"
+version = "0.12.9"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "a77c62af46e79de0a562e1a9849205ffcb7fc1238876e9bd743357570e04046f"
+dependencies = [
+ "base64 0.22.1",
+ "bytes",
+ "encoding_rs",
+ "futures-core",
+ "futures-util",
+ "h2",
+ "http",
+ "http-body",
+ "http-body-util",
+ "hyper",
+ "hyper-rustls",
+ "hyper-util",
+ "ipnet",
+ "js-sys",
+ "log",
+ "mime",
+ "once_cell",
+ "percent-encoding",
+ "pin-project-lite",
+ "quinn",
+ "rustls 0.23.20",
+ "rustls-pemfile",
+ "rustls-pki-types",
+ "serde",
+ "serde_json",
+ "serde_urlencoded",
+ "sync_wrapper",
+ "system-configuration",
+ "tokio",
+ "tokio-rustls 0.26.1",
+ "tower-service",
+ "url",
+ "wasm-bindgen",
+ "wasm-bindgen-futures",
+ "web-sys",
+ "webpki-roots",
+ "windows-registry",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "rfc7239"
 version = "0.1.3"
@@ -2714,6 +2872,12 @@ version = "0.1.23"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "d626bb9dae77e28219937af045c257c28bfd3f69333c512553507f5f9798cb76"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "rustc-hash"
+version = "2.1.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "c7fb8039b3032c191086b10f11f319a6e99e1e82889c5cc6046f515c9db1d497"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "rustix"
 version = "0.38.42"
@@ -2724,7 +2888,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "errno",
  "libc",
  "linux-raw-sys",
- "windows-sys 0.52.0",
+ "windows-sys 0.59.0",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -2741,6 +2905,20 @@ dependencies = [
  "zeroize",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "rustls"
+version = "0.23.20"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "5065c3f250cbd332cd894be57c40fa52387247659b14a2d6041d121547903b1b"
+dependencies = [
+ "once_cell",
+ "ring",
+ "rustls-pki-types",
+ "rustls-webpki",
+ "subtle",
+ "zeroize",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "rustls-pemfile"
 version = "2.2.0"
@@ -2755,6 +2933,9 @@ name = "rustls-pki-types"
 version = "1.10.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "d2bf47e6ff922db3825eb750c4e2ff784c6ff8fb9e13046ef6a1d1c5401b0b37"
+dependencies = [
+ "web-time",
+]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "rustls-webpki"
@@ -2798,18 +2979,18 @@ checksum = "94143f37725109f92c262ed2cf5e59bce7498c01bcc1502d7b9afe439a4e9f49"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "serde"
-version = "1.0.199"
+version = "1.0.216"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "0c9f6e76df036c77cd94996771fb40db98187f096dd0b9af39c6c6e452ba966a"
+checksum = "0b9781016e935a97e8beecf0c933758c97a5520d32930e460142b4cd80c6338e"
 dependencies = [
  "serde_derive",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "serde_derive"
-version = "1.0.199"
+version = "1.0.216"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "11bd257a6541e141e42ca6d24ae26f7714887b47e89aa739099104c7e4d3b7fc"
+checksum = "46f859dbbf73865c6627ed570e78961cd3ac92407a2d117204c49232485da55e"
 dependencies = [
  "proc-macro2 1.0.92",
  "quote 1.0.36",
@@ -3263,6 +3444,27 @@ dependencies = [
  "syn 2.0.90",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "system-configuration"
+version = "0.6.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "3c879d448e9d986b661742763247d3693ed13609438cf3d006f51f5368a5ba6b"
+dependencies = [
+ "bitflags 2.4.2",
+ "core-foundation",
+ "system-configuration-sys",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "system-configuration-sys"
+version = "0.6.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "8e1d1b10ced5ca923a1fcb8d03e96b8d3268065d724548c0211415ff6ac6bac4"
+dependencies = [
+ "core-foundation-sys",
+ "libc",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "system-deps"
 version = "6.2.2"
@@ -3309,7 +3511,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "fastrand",
  "once_cell",
  "rustix",
- "windows-sys 0.52.0",
+ "windows-sys 0.59.0",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -3474,11 +3676,21 @@ version = "0.25.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "775e0c0f0adb3a2f22a00c4745d728b479985fc15ee7ca6a2608388c5569860f"
 dependencies = [
- "rustls",
+ "rustls 0.22.4",
  "rustls-pki-types",
  "tokio",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "tokio-rustls"
+version = "0.26.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "5f6d0975eaace0cf0fcadee4e4aaa5da15b5c079146f2cffb67c113be122bf37"
+dependencies = [
+ "rustls 0.23.20",
+ "tokio",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "tokio-stream"
 version = "0.1.17"
@@ -3537,6 +3749,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "winnow",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "tower-service"
+version = "0.3.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "8df9b6e13f2d32c91b9bd719c00d1958837bc7dec474d94952798cc8e69eeec3"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "tracing"
 version = "0.1.41"
@@ -3595,6 +3813,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "tracing-log",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "try-lock"
+version = "0.2.5"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "e421abadd41a4225275504ea4d6566923418b7f05506fbc9c0fe86ba7396114b"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "ttf-parser"
 version = "0.19.2"
@@ -3759,6 +3983,15 @@ version = "0.9.4"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "49874b5167b65d7193b8aba1567f5c7d93d001cafc34600cee003eda787e483f"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "want"
+version = "0.3.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "bfa7760aed19e106de2c7c0b581b509f2f25d3dacaf737cb82ac61bc6d760b0e"
+dependencies = [
+ "try-lock",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "wasi"
 version = "0.11.0+wasi-snapshot-preview1"
@@ -3847,6 +4080,25 @@ dependencies = [
  "wasm-bindgen",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "web-time"
+version = "1.1.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "5a6580f308b1fad9207618087a65c04e7a10bc77e02c8e84e9b00dd4b12fa0bb"
+dependencies = [
+ "js-sys",
+ "wasm-bindgen",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "webpki-roots"
+version = "0.26.7"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "5d642ff16b7e79272ae451b7322067cdc17cadf68c23264be9d94a32319efe7e"
+dependencies = [
+ "rustls-pki-types",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "weezl"
 version = "0.1.8"
@@ -3900,6 +4152,36 @@ dependencies = [
  "windows-targets 0.52.6",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "windows-registry"
+version = "0.2.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "e400001bb720a623c1c69032f8e3e4cf09984deec740f007dd2b03ec864804b0"
+dependencies = [
+ "windows-result",
+ "windows-strings",
+ "windows-targets 0.52.6",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "windows-result"
+version = "0.2.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "1d1043d8214f791817bab27572aaa8af63732e11bf84aa21a45a78d6c317ae0e"
+dependencies = [
+ "windows-targets 0.52.6",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "windows-strings"
+version = "0.1.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "4cd9b125c486025df0eabcb585e62173c6c9eddcec5d117d3b6e8c30e2ee4d10"
+dependencies = [
+ "windows-result",
+ "windows-targets 0.52.6",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "windows-sys"
 version = "0.48.0"
diff --git a/local-operator/Cargo.toml b/local-operator/Cargo.toml
index 803c784..6c8062c 100644
--- a/local-operator/Cargo.toml
+++ b/local-operator/Cargo.toml
@@ -30,3 +30,14 @@ poem-openapi = { version = "5", git = "https://github.com/poem-web/poem", branch
     "redoc",
     "static-files",
 ] }
+futures = "0.3.31"
+reqwest = { version = "0.12.9", features = [
+    "rustls-tls",
+    # Add back the default features excluding native-tls
+    "charset",
+    "http2",
+    "macos-system-configuration",
+    "json",
+], default-features = false }
+serde = "1.0.216"
+serde_json = "1.0.133"
diff --git a/local-operator/src/main.rs b/local-operator/src/main.rs
index 9e6079e..5910744 100644
--- a/local-operator/src/main.rs
+++ b/local-operator/src/main.rs
@@ -3,8 +3,12 @@
 use std::sync::Arc;
 
 use brother_ql_rs::printer::ThermalPrinter;
-use poem::{get, handler, listener::TcpListener, middleware::Cors, EndpointExt as _, Route, Server};
-use poem_openapi::{payload::Html, OpenApi, OpenApiService};
+use poem::{
+    get, handler, listener::TcpListener, middleware::Cors, EndpointExt as _, Route, Server,
+};
+use poem_openapi::{payload::Html, Object, OpenApi, OpenApiService};
+use reqwest::Client;
+use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
 use state::AppState;
 use tracing::info;
 
@@ -13,6 +17,12 @@ use crate::{
     template::{LabelPrintable, LabelTemplate},
 };
 
+#[derive(Debug, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+pub struct OperatorHeartbeatPayload {
+    pub operator_id: String,
+    pub operator_endpoint: String,
+}
+
 pub mod label;
 pub mod state;
 pub mod template;
@@ -27,8 +37,10 @@ async fn main() {
 
     info!("Starting v3x-property local-operator");
 
+    let token = std::env::var("PAT_TOKEN").unwrap();
+
     let api_service =
-        OpenApiService::new(get_api(), "Hello World", "1.0").server("http://localhost:3000/api");
+        OpenApiService::new(get_api(), "Hello World", "1.0").server("http://localhost:3001/api");
 
     let spec = api_service.spec_endpoint();
 
@@ -45,8 +57,28 @@ async fn main() {
 
     let listener = TcpListener::bind("0.0.0.0:3001");
 
-    Server::new(listener).run(app).await.unwrap();
-
+    let _ = futures::future::join(
+        async {
+            // send an http request
+            let client = Client::new();
+
+            let body = OperatorHeartbeatPayload {
+                operator_id: "local-printer".to_string(),
+                operator_endpoint: "http://localhost:3001".to_string(),
+            };
+
+            let response = client
+                .post("http://localhost:3000/api/operators")
+                .json(&body)
+                .header("Authorization", format!("Bearer {}", token))
+                .send()
+                .await
+                .unwrap();
+            info!("Response: {:?}", response);
+        },
+        Server::new(listener).run(app),
+    )
+    .await;
     // println!("Hello, world!");
 
     // let label = Label::new(1);
@@ -73,8 +105,7 @@ async fn main() {
     // println!("Printer: {:?}", printer.get_status().unwrap());
 }
 
-
 #[handler]
 async fn get_openapi_docs() -> Html<&'static str> {
     Html(include_str!("./index.html"))
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}