Remote Laboratory Activities to Support Experimental Session for Undergraduate Measurements Courses

Abstract

Remote laboratories originate from the attractive opportunity of exploiting the advantages offered by Internet to controlling instrumentation and hence conduct measurement processes from any location at any time. This capability has been employed in educational areas, developing remote laboratories at Universities, in order to provide a large number of students with laboratory experiences avoiding the problems of low availability of instrumentation and technical personnel. There is a wide variety of solutions enabling a measurement station to be controlled through the web, each one with its peculiarities. In the paper it is presented a remote laboratory to support the experimental session of the course of Measurement for Diagnostics and Quality, based on Macromedia Flash pages and Net Web Services, whose main characteristics are platform independence and ease of use