Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Phar Lap Software Inc has come out with what it calls the world’s smallest Web server for embedded devices. Based on Phar Lap’s Embedded Web Technology, which includes Realtime ETS Kernel for embedded development, TCP/IP support and an HTML-On-The-Fly package, it is designed to enable embedded devices to be made universally accessible via the World Wide Web from any machine with a Web browser. Phar Lap sees the system being used to monitor things such as weather stations, seismographic monitors or flood watch systems, or in-room patient monitors, factory-floor controller monitors and office systems such as smart copiers. It has put together the Phar Lap weather station, which runs on a 4 by 4 8 0386 single board computer, provides worldwide access to the local weather outside Phar Lap’s Cambridge, offices – want to check? It’s at http://smallest.pharlap.com. The HTML-On-The-Fly package converts raw data into HyperText Mark-up Language; the suite includes dialler software so the remote system can dial a host. It will be available this quarter, but the firm gave no prices.
