Design of a remote electronic laboratory

The aim of this work is the implementation of a remote laboratory so as to provide students access to expensive laboratory equipment, that are usually unavailable. This project was developed to improve not only the acquisition of the theoretical foundation, but also the control of distant real practical experiments. The microcontroller Arduino permits to command the practical work experiments and the measuring instruments via the Internet. The client can access the remote experiment through a web page interface that is developed in HTML/JavaScript, which enables the user to select the model of practical work (PW) and its components. The system response can be visualized via webcam. This architecture offers an easy implementation of different distant electronic practical experiments that are tailored for the electrical engineering field. In this paper, systems of software and hardware are presented to facilitate significantly the access to distant electronic experiments.