Vending

Remote management device activates swift OS recovery

August 26, 2020

DFI, a Taipei, Taiwan-based provider of embedded solutions, industrial motherboards and custom products, is launching RemoGuard, a solution that not only monitors equipment remotely, but activates OS recovery swiftly even if the OS in the machine has crashed, according to a press release.

RemoGuard uses Innodisk's innoAge and out-of-band technology, and can timely predict equipment status before its shutdown and efficiently activate OS auto-backup and recovery despite host crashes. Furthermore, the data of device health status are collected automatically to the cloud, and users can monitor all connected devices through a customizable UX dashboard.

Point-of-sales applications, such as vending machines and self-service kiosks, require an approach monitoring device status from any location, the press release noted. If those are shut down, not only will it require repair fees to fix the machine, but also will lose lots of transactions.

"Synergizing with Innodisk, an industrial SSD leader in the market, DFI launches RemoGuard, providing high-performance embedded solutions with an innovative remote management platform," Steven Tsai, president of DFI, said in the release. "It's an add-on service helping customers go through this hard time and looking into the prospective future of cooperation."