Title :
A measurement laboratory on geographic network for remote test experiments
Author :
Arpaia, Pasquale ; Baccigalupi, Aldo ; Cennamo, Felice ; Daponte, Pasquale
Author_Institution :
Dipt. di Ingegneria Elettrica, Naples Univ., Italy
fDate :
10/1/2000 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A remote laboratory for teaching purposes in the field of measuring experiments was activated. Students can access automatic measuring setups and instruments via a geographic network and directly carry out real experiments. This laboratory has been devised on the basis of de-facto networking standards so that students are required to use only a simple commercial Internet Web browser. Moreover, a concurrence of more users on the same measuring setup is allowed. The remote laboratory concept allows measuring resources located at different geographically remote sites to be utilized by a wide distribution of students. In this way, a more complete educational proposal can be economically offered by several geographically remote laboratories specialized in different measuring fields
Keywords :
Internet; computer architecture; computerised instrumentation; laboratories; multiprocessing systems; piezoelectric transducers; student experiments; telemetry; Internet Web browser; automatic measuring setup; computer networks; education; geographic network; geographically remote laboratories; measurement laboratory; networking standards; piezoelectric transducers; remote laboratory; remote test experiments; Application software; Costs; Education; Electric variables measurement; Hardware; Instruments; Performance evaluation; Remote laboratories; Testing; World Wide Web;
Journal_Title :
Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE Transactions on