The JMobile Suite

JMobile is a suite of products that provide a complete solution for connecting to equipment and visualizing data. All the products are easily configured using the JMobile Studio a graphical drag and drop environment for building displays.

Technically speaking, JMobile is designed with a three-tier architecture: the presentation tier, the business logic tier and the data tier. JMobile Client is the presentation tier and provides a graphical representation of data. The JMobile server is the business logic tier. These systems control how the data is recorder and served to the outside world. Finally, the server side provides the data tier. The JMobile Server includes an integrated data acquisition system for recording trends, tag data, alarms and events. An HMI device in its classical format includes Client and Server in an unique combination, not visible to the end user. This is actually the JMobile runtime system.

A tiered architecture provides a key benefit: data can be completely decoupled from visualization and standardized interfaces can be used for inter-tier communication. This allows the presentation layer to run locally or remotely and still maintain the client-server architecture and still provide a complete HMI system. With this approach, the presentation tier can run on a different unit for instance, on a PC, PDA or mobile and the system operates as a headless platform. Another key benefit of this approach is that third-party applications can attach the business logic as well.

A tiered architecture provides an key benfit: data can be completely decoupled from visualization and standardized interfaces can be used for inter-tier communication. This allows the the presentation layer to run locally or remotely and still maintain the client-server architecture and still provide a complete HMI system. With this approach, the presentation tier can run on a different unit for instance, on a PC, PDA or mobile and the system operates as a headless platform. Another key benefit of this approach is that third-party applications can attach the business logic as well.

The JMobile suite also includes an optional tier: the gateway server provides proxy communications between the data presentation layer and business logic.

	JMobile runtime The JMobile runtime is an embedded HMI engine for Windows, WCE and Linux. The JMobile runtime contains all the features of high and HMI system.
	JMobile Client JMobile Client provides a live, interactive display of machine data from a remote location. JMobile Client is virtual platform that runs on Windows PCs, web browsers and mobile devices.
	JMobile Lite JMobile Lite provides a simple but very powerful HMI client for web browsers and cellular phones. JMobile Lite is based on HTML5 and JavaScript and and runs on web browsers without a plugin. JMobile Lite also runs on the latest cellular phones including iPhone, Android and Blackberry.
	JMobile Studio JMobile Studio is easy to use graphical editor for creating HMI pages. Simply drag and drop symbols on the page, connect to device variables and you are ready to go. JMobile Studio contains a large symbol library as well as tag management, an alarm database, a schedule editor and all features needed to manage the device.