# Welcome to JasperX **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [18 November 2025 04:41 UTC](https://forum.jasperx.io/t/welcome-to-jasperx/10 "2025-11-18T04:41:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![alex-cx](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/forum.jasperx.io/alex-cx/32/8_2.png) [@alex-cx](https://forum.jasperx.io/u/alex-cx)\ **Post date:** [18 November 2025 04:41 UTC](https://forum.jasperx.io/t/welcome-to-jasperx/10/1 "2025-11-18T04:41:45Z")
Hello everyone, I’m so glad you joined us. My name is Alex Sharikov, and I’m a controls engineer based in Newcastle, Australia. For years, our industry (controls and automation) has lagged behind the software engineers’ toolset. It makes programming and modifying industrial systems a “manual and tedious process”, leading to project delays, high costs, and intense frustration when dealing with proprietary, vendor-locked systems. To tackle this problem, our team at ControlX has been developing **JasperNode** , an industrial automation runtime with an in-built, AI-powered development environment. Think of it as an **AI-powered softPLC**. ### How It Works (and What It’s NOT) This isn’t about AI “running the machine”, it is AI-generated logic moderated with a “human-in-the-loop” approach. 1. **You** (the engineer, technician, or process expert) write a natural language prompt. (e.g., “When the tank level is high, close the inlet valve and open the drain valve.”) 2. **The AI** (via our JasperX cloud platform) generates the control logic in high-level JavaScript. 3. **You** review, verify, and approve that code. 4. With one click, you deploy it to the **JasperNode runtime** , which is a piece of software running on a standard Industrial PC (or any PC/Linux/macOS) at the client’s site. 5. **You** can navigate to the tags and their logic to make manual modifications. This process is designed to make it easier and fun to implement, troubleshoot, and modify control logic. ### Who Is This For? We designed JasperNode to be a flexible “workforce multiplier” for several key challenges: - **For System Integrators:** Not replacing the PLCs, rather enreaching it with IT features. We’ve found JasperNode is an ideal **“Data Integration Gateway”**. It excels at the IT/OT convergence tasks that are often painful with traditional PLCs — connecting any machine (Modbus, S7, Ethernet/IP) to any IT system (MQTT, InfluxDB, Emails, HTTP APIs). It can be a cost-effective, non-threatening tool to solve data headaches for your clients. - **For Industrial Electricians / Maintenance Teams:** This is a tool to help you stop “being locked out of the PLC”. It’s designed to give you the power to troubleshoot and modify logic on non-safety-critical systems, reducing downtime and your reliance on external specialist programmers. - **For Engineers & Developers:** It’s an event-driven system built on modern tools (TypeScript/JavaScript) with a strong focus on developer experience (DX). If you’re comfortable with Node-RED or modern web stacks, you’ll feel at home. ### We’re Looking for Feedback JasperNode is production-ready and has been used in several local industrial applications (monitoring, SCADA, and non-critical process control). We are now launching an **Early Access Program** and are looking for experienced automation professionals, engineers, and SIs to try the platform and provide honest, technical feedback. To make this easier, we’ve created a starter kit called **JasperPack**. It’s a pre-assembled DIN rail with a mini-PC (running JasperNode) and a Siemens LOGO! PLC, so you can get started testing in minutes. You can learn more at our website: [https://www.jasperx.com.au/](https://www.jasperx.com.au/) I’m here to answer any technical questions you have. What are your thoughts on this approach? Thanks, Alex ---
**Author:** ![alex-cx](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/forum.jasperx.io/alex-cx/32/8_2.png) [@alex-cx](https://forum.jasperx.io/u/alex-cx)\ **Post date:** [18 November 2025 04:42 UTC](https://forum.jasperx.io/t/welcome-to-jasperx/10/2 "2025-11-18T04:42:26Z")
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