Federal University of Santa Catarina
Remote Experiment Lab
New Perspectives
Internet has been a very important resource to academics in the last years.
In order to extend the ways in which people utilize it, The Remote Experiment Lab is an
educational resource that allows students to collect information from real world, using the Internet.
This brings in the new concept of Remote Experimentation, which is an extension
of remote access and, unlike it, allows interactions with physical world. These interactions are controlled
by the remote computer (server).
The Remote Experiment Lab is, therefore, a combined system of a computer (server) and external devices that
allow users to control anything connected to the computer, just as the user were in the system's place.
To the server can be connected several types of systems and/or instruments like osciloscopes, multimeters and
function generators. The remote user, when connected to the server, can control any of the devices.
The principal benefits of a remote experiment lab in academics are:
- a better use of universities' nets of computers;
- the lab gives users (teachers and students) access to resources that they do not have, allowing
to larger numbers of people access to real experiments without any expense;
- experiments can be made from any place and at any time, given that the person has access to Internet.
Moreover, the development of this technology will permit, in a near future, new Internet possibilities:
- exploration of places normally inaccessible to humans, like space, the ocean and vulcanoes;
- troubleshooting and configuration of products remotely, saving time and expense
while speeding up customer service;
The above possibilites justify the implantation of our first project of a
Remote Experiment Lab
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Last updated in 13/03/97
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