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Products Have Lifecycles. Platforms Have Careers.
Walk through any manufacturing plant and you’ll find equipment that has quietly outlived the expectations of its designers. Machines are periodically repaired, reluctantly upgraded, creatively adapted, and routinely pressed into service long after the original install has long faded from memory. Engineers tend to hold onto things that continue to perform while owners weigh the […]
How JNIOR Got Its Own Operating System
How a processor end-of-life announcement led to the development of JANOS, the custom operating system that powers JNIOR and preserves continuity across hardware generations. — — — — — — — Every embedded device has an Operating System (OS). But not all operating systems are of the same level of sophistication. There came a point […]
JNIOR Monitors Solar
Solar energy has bathed our planet for eons, and humans have utilized this resource in many ways. However, the ability to harness the sun’s power as a renewable energy source by converting sunlight into electricity is a much more recent development that has become quite commonplace. One challenge is doing so at the scale needed […]
INTEG Product Brief
After nearly two decades of providing JNIOR automation controller models in markets like Digital Cinema, Energy and Monitoring, we figured it was perhaps about time to describe it from an industrial controls perspective. We never really had an ‘elevator pitch’ that could get the concept across in a broadly horizontal sense. Here is the latest […]
Java Applet vs. JNIOR Web Page
Besides the fact that applets are no longer a thing… This post takes a look into what differences you might notice between the Series 4 WebUI and the old Series 3 Java Applets.
Taking a Snapshot
Many times the best way to send diagnostic information to INTEG is to send us a Snapshot. A Snapshot is a zip file containing all of the files from the JNIOR. When a Snapshot is taken the Support Tool will make a telnet connection, run a few diagnostic commands and then download all of the […]
Importance of the Battery
How do I know if the Battery is good or bad? The battery voltage can be measured with a voltmeter. The voltage of a good battery should be 2.7 volts or greater. Really the battery preserves the clock and the logs located in the root of the filesystem. The JNIOR will continue to work when it dies. It is replaceable on the Series 4.
Securing a unit with Non-Factory Username and Password
Leaving any device set with a factory Username and Password is a big security risk. Better safe than sorry. Its a saying for a reason!