Remote laboratory design and implementation as a measurement and automation experiential learning opportunity

Abstract

Designing and implementing a remote laboratory has long been a professional job, carried out by experts working in synergy with teachers. Nowadays, thanks to the availability of advanced tools, the implementation can be assigned as a student project related to advanced measurement and automation classes. The development of the project happens to have an important educational validity, since it allows the student to get familiar with principles and technologies that characterize intelligent manufacturing and smart environments, as central elements of Industry 4.0. In particular, the student has the opportunity to increase knowledge of Internet technologies that more and more often are substituting for the proprietary solutions, previously adopted in the industry for process monitoring and automation.