Integration of management services for remote/virtual laboratories

Development of virtual/remote laboratories is a common task involved in the design of course´s assessments (in engineering disciplines). The deployment of these laboratories must manage several aspects related to the real use of them, as user´s authorization and access, tracking of usage information, loading/saving data from experiments and so on. These features must be implemented by developers in a particular way for each laboratory. This paper shows how these services can be used automatically, with no development, using the RELATED management services. The deployment task consists of making a connector to the RELATED framework in order to consume these services. A full example is shown, describing the steps followed to integrate a previously developed low cost laboratory (based on a Lego system).