By Swathi K
A Remote Laboratory is a workbench, which enables us to remotely conduct real experiments. With the growth of the Internet and IoT, Machine-to-Machine communication has grown its demand for new technologies to connect billions worldwide.
E-Lab provides users the ease to explore operating hardware even if the user is physically present at a separate geographical location, connected through their regular mobile devices. An E-lab is built on wireless sensor technology that enables the user to exchange data and control the machine. This can be achieved with a simple combination of mobile service and applications.
This approach presents the novel design techniques of hardware system that develops a remote/wireless Electronics Lab. The approach is to use the GSM to provide students with remote access to physical laboratory apparatus. An application (app) is created with help of JAVA to handle the hardware. Systems of this type are synchronous, giving students a sense of actual involvement in the experiment. A PC is used with Dotnet programming to interface the webcam option. The PC will be interfaced with microcontrollers for controlling different units. The PC uses Internet service to E-mail Video clippings of Hardware setup and its working to the students’ e-mail Id. This also provides safety measures for all humans involved in the learning process. Since GSM mobile phones are now widely used, this is the best and easy way to access any remote laboratory.
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Live watch - to enhance distance learning, laboratories can provide LIVE streaming or provide video clippings with the use of internet service.
With the enormous growth of the internet and its usage, the demand for more technologies and applications in every field is ever growing. Users are no more comfortable doing their chores in person; they rather opt to obtain everything at their fingertips through various technologies.
Laboratory experiments are an integral part of science and engineering education. Automation is changing the nature of these laboratories, and the focus of the system designer is on the availability of various interfacing tools to access the laboratory hardware remotely with the integration of computer-supported learning environment. In engineering, laboratories have had a central role in the education of engineers. The first kind of distance education included graduate programs intended primarily, if not solely, for part-time students who were employed full time. Since most graduate programs do not include a laboratory component, the question of how to deliver laboratory experiences did not arise. As undergraduate distance learning programs started to develop, this problem demanded a solution, and IoT (Internet of Things) is the solution.
Laboratory experiments are an integral part of science and engineering education. Automation is changing the nature of these laboratories, and the focus of the system designer is on the availability of various interfacing tools to access the laboratory hardware remotely with the integration of computer-supported learning environment. In engineering, laboratories have had a central role in the education of engineers. The first kind of distance education included graduate programs intended primarily, if not solely, for part-time students who were employed full time. Since most graduate programs do not include a laboratory component, the question of how to deliver laboratory experiences did not arise. As undergraduate distance learning programs started to develop, this problem demanded a solution, and IoT (Internet of Things) is the solution.
E-Lab provides users the ease to explore operating hardware even if the user is physically present at a separate geographical location, connected through their regular mobile devices. An E-lab is built on wireless sensor technology that enables the user to exchange data and control the machine. This can be achieved with a simple combination of mobile service and applications.
This approach presents the novel design techniques of hardware system that develops a remote/wireless Electronics Lab. The approach is to use the GSM to provide students with remote access to physical laboratory apparatus. An application (app) is created with help of JAVA to handle the hardware. Systems of this type are synchronous, giving students a sense of actual involvement in the experiment. A PC is used with Dotnet programming to interface the webcam option. The PC will be interfaced with microcontrollers for controlling different units. The PC uses Internet service to E-mail Video clippings of Hardware setup and its working to the students’ e-mail Id. This also provides safety measures for all humans involved in the learning process. Since GSM mobile phones are now widely used, this is the best and easy way to access any remote laboratory.
- The user can login and carry out experiments from any geographical location.
- The user will have no time constraints.
- A remote lab provides extended access to expensive and highly specialized devices or setups.
- Economic usage - sharing labs also reduces the utilization and maintenance cost.
- Provides security through user authentication and has no risk of catastrophic failure.
- Provides safety measures for all humans involved in the learning process. Any damage during the conduction will not harm anyone in person. Example: Advanced high–voltage or chemical laboratories.
- Increased efficiency - improved communication leads to faster transfer of information.
Live watch - to enhance distance learning, laboratories can provide LIVE streaming or provide video clippings with the use of internet service.
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