# IPad as Ignition server

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ipad-as-ignition-server/2443>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [December 20, 2010, 1:48pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ipad-as-ignition-server/2443 "2010-12-20T13:48:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![mnewberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ab097/32.png) [@mnewberry](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mnewberry)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2010, 1:48pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ipad-as-ignition-server/2443/1 "2010-12-20T13:48:48Z")

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We’re an OEM for mobile equipment. The primary operating environments for our products are rock quarries and mines with no cell phone reception or internet access. We have operators driving around in Payloaders and Bulldozers, and I am looking into giving them access from the vehicle to PLC items.

I’ve read that I can get Ignition access via mobile phone/IPad through server connections (that is- throw a tower inside of the panel and connect through WiFi). What I’m wondering is, though, is if there is any way to use an IPad as the server. It would be a connection to a single client through a WiFi router in the panel.

Any advice?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2010, 4:16pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ipad-as-ignition-server/2443/2 "2010-12-20T16:16:28Z")

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iOS (The OS that runs iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch) does not support Java so there’s no way to run the Ignition gateway on them.