Wireless Machine Monitoring and Control for Educational Purpose

Nowadays, with rapid development and higher technology in portable computer development. Computer widely used to control machine and other electrical component. With availability of new software and hardware that can easily bought in the market, user will chose the software or hardware with the easiest and interactive way for control and monitoring purpose. This paper present prototype of educational pneumatic machine with replacement of PLC or Programmable Logic Controller that being used before to control part or pneumatic and electro pneumatic components using Data Acquisition Card (DAQ) and Xbee (ZigBee module)for wireless communication. NI LabVIEW as software used to create a fully functional SCADA measurement application with analysis and a custom user interface. The developed prototype did show that machine monitoring and control using LabVIEW and DAQ is reliable and easy to use software for GUI applications.