PicoServ...
PicoServ allows organisations, systems developers and product managers to web-enable virtually any device.

The PicoServ miniature web server module is an ‘Internet engine’ designed to be able to provide a browser based interface over a LAN or the internet in a small space, at low power, at low cost and with little or no design effort.

PicoServ supports dynamic web pages which means that real time data can be both displayed and/or updated from a standard web browser

System designers or integrators need only be familiar with their own products or systems. The PicoServ module takes care of all the required network interfacing, network and internet communications protocols and storage of web pages and other files.

Dynamic web pages are supported using an innovative and simple to use method which allows real world variables and information from the host system, for example temperatures, speeds, levels, voltages, switch positions etc. to be displayed or changed using only simple HTML techniques. Virtually any number and type of host variables and parameters can be handled without any need to specify or pre-define fields on the PicoServ server.

A simple RS232 serial interface is provided to allow data to be exchanged between the PicoServ server module and the host system. A second serial interface conforming to the I 2C bus standard is also provided. In addition a number of standard intelligent interface modules are available which provide ‘no development’ parallel, serial, analogue, and digital I/O interfaces between the server module and the outside world.

The relatively large file storage area of 260K bytes for such a system, which can support almost any type of file including HTML, GIF, JPEG, and JAVA, means that only standard web authoring techniques are required to be able to provide an eloquent and professional browser based interface for almost any system.