Remote instrument control with CIMA Web services and Web 2.0 technology

Author

du Boulay, Douglas ; Chee, Clinton ; Chiu, Kenneth ; Leow, Richard ; McMullen, Donald F. ; Quilici, Romain ; Turner, Peter

Author_Institution

Department of Chemistry, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia

Volume

2

fYear

2007

fDate

28-31 Oct. 2007

Firstpage

768

Lastpage

773

Abstract

The Common Instrument Middleware Architecture (CIMA) model for Web services based monitoring of remote scientific instruments is being extended and enhanced to provide a capability for remote instrument control. X-ray diffraction has been selected as an ideal domain for prototype development, with the goal being a comprehensive and feature rich portal system for access to remote instruments and their data. The system has two principle components, one of which serves the instrument and data, and the second serves the client user. Plugin modules are used to provide flexibility and re-use, and the notion of plugin control is being developed. The architecture supports remote access to multiple instruments from a single portal. The use of Web 2.0 Pushlet and AJAX technologies has been introduced for push based portlet refresh and updating. An X3D based 3D virtual representation of the instrument provides data collection simulation and (pseudo) real time instrument representation.

Keywords

Chemical technology; Computer architecture; Costs; Instruments; Middleware; Portals; Remote monitoring; Service oriented architecture; Web services; X-ray diffraction;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Digital Information Management, 2007. ICDIM '07. 2nd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Lyon, France

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1475-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1476-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDIM.2007.4444317

Filename

4444317