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Unattended access to machines and workstations.

Reach production PCs, point-of-sale systems and workstations at any time — through an always-running service, even when nobody is there.

Production PCs, point-of-sale systems, digital signage and workstations often need to be reachable even when nobody is in front of them. Termiverse keeps these devices connected through a lightweight agent — an always-running Windows service — so you can access them unattended at any time: outbound, encrypted, without inbound ports and around the clock. That saves the effort of site-wide VPNs and reaches even individual devices nobody else looks after.

Starting point

Why distributed devices are hard to reach

Industrial PCs, tills and digital signage are often spread across many locations — in stores, factory floors or shop windows, usually with nobody in front of them. Classic remote access fails here on several counts: the devices sit behind firewalls and NAT with no fixed IP, a VPN would have to be set up and maintained for every site, and sending someone on-site for every bit of maintenance costs time and money. If a device stalls at night or on the weekend, nobody notices — and outside opening hours there is nobody there to switch a powered-off machine on or confirm a remote session. Each of these hurdles costs time, ties up staff and delays updates that are actually urgent.

How it works

Three steps to permanent access

1

Roll out the agent via token

You generate an enrollment token and distribute the preconfigured agent EXE to your devices — manually, via software deployment or group policy. The agent runs as a Windows service and connects outbound, with no manual server configuration. Once rolled out, it stays active in the background and checks back in on its own after every reboot.

2

Find it by location in the grid

All devices appear in the grid, sorted by location or group. A reachability status shows at a glance which machines are online — you find the one you need through filters and groups in seconds. Newly rolled-out devices appear automatically as soon as their agent makes contact for the first time.

3

Wake & connect

If a device is powered off, you wake it via Wake-on-LAN through the tunnel of a neighbouring device. Then you start a terminal or remote desktop — encrypted over TLS and documented in the audit log.

In practice

Why Termiverse fits here

Always reachable

A Windows service keeps the device permanently connected — access around the clock, even with nobody on-site.

Mass rollout

Distribute a preconfigured agent EXE to many devices via group tokens.

No port forwarding

Devices connect outbound — no inbound ports, no attack surface, even behind a firewall and NAT.

Before / after

What changes day to day

The old way

A separate VPN for every site, fixed IPs or port forwarding per device. Powered-off machines stay unreachable, outages only surface at the next on-site visit, and every small maintenance job means someone drives out.

With Termiverse

One agent per device, connected outbound — no VPN and no open ports. You wake powered-off devices via Wake-on-LAN, monitoring reports outages instantly, and every session lands traceably in the audit log. For individual device files you can additionally enable a backup add-on.

From the field

Patching a POS system overnight

A retail chain needs to apply a security update to its point-of-sale systems — impossible during the day, because the tills are in use. At night the machines are shut down and the stores are empty. The administrator opens Termiverse, wakes the tills of one store after another via Wake-on-LAN through the tunnel of an always-on signage player, applies the update over the remote desktop and checks in the terminal that everything runs cleanly. To finish, the optional backup add-on secures the relevant device files before the tills are shut down again. If a till ever fails to answer the wake call, monitoring flags it as offline at once. By morning every store is up to date — nobody had to be on-site, and every step is in the audit log.

Capabilities

What Termiverse provides here

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Does access work without a logged-in user?
Yes, via the agent running as a Windows service.
How do I roll out many devices?
With group tokens and a preconfigured agent EXE from the UI.
Is this suitable for production environments?
Yes; with self-hosting data also stays on your own network.
Can I wake powered-off devices?
Yes. Via Wake-on-LAN, Termiverse wakes a device through the tunnel of another permanently connected device on the same network — then you connect as usual.
Are devices behind a firewall reached?
Yes. The agent connects outbound over TLS; you need neither port forwarding nor a VPN, even behind a firewall and NAT.
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