Intranet-Based Real-Time Laboratory A Case Study in Electrical Engineering

The goal of this paper is to design, develop and demonstrate virtual instrumentation (VI) system that can be used to monitor and remotely control a real-time laboratory experiment. The system has been interfaced with a computer, also used as a server, and the virtual instrumentation has been developed in LabVIEW environment. An important feature of this study is that, the virtual instruments operate on real-time basis collecting, processing, analyzing and displaying data as the events take place. Furthermore, this study concentrates on the problem encounter on the system-computer interface by using a host of interfacing techniques including data acquisition card and parallel and serial interface techniques operating simultaneously. It has been shown that the laboratory experiment can be conducted by the intranet of the enterprise from any location. The problems related with the use of internet due to firewall and others are under investigation