An educational laboratory for remote instrumentation programming based on LabWindovs/CVITM Environment

The paper describes the architecture of a remote laboratory aimed at training the students of electronic instrumentation graduated courses. The remote laboratory, including a number of measurement stations, each tailored for solving specific tasks, is used as a training environment to develop and test a set of measurement experiments via WLAN and TCP/IP protocol. Once access to a specific measurement station has been granted, it is possible to send commands and receive data from the instruments in order to execute the measurement procedures as if they were performed on a local computer. The communication between the controlled remote laboratory and the local computer has been designed to be totally transparent. Therefore, the measurement devices are controlled in the same way as if they were local instruments. The proposed architecture training target requires particular attention to the access management in order to guarantee waiting times as short as possible.