Suitability of SCADA for development of remote laboratories

Author

Nedic, Z. ; Nafalski, A.

Author_Institution

Univ. of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia

fYear

2013

fDate

6-8 Feb. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Development of remote laboratories is a complex task. It usually requires knowledge from various disciplines like computer science, electrical, mechanical and other engineering disciplines depending of the nature of the experiments for which the remote laboratory is designed. Many remote laboratories have client server architecture and use LabVIEW software to support remote access to experimental workbench. In this article we discuss the suitability of using SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) software for the development of remote laboratories with an extra benefit of making students work ready for industrial environments where SCADA is commonly used in automation of manufacturing and scientific processes.

Keywords

SCADA systems; computer aided instruction; engineering education; virtual instrumentation; LabVIEW software; SCADA; computer science; electrical engineering; industrial environments; manufacturing automation processes; mechanical engineering; remote laboratories; scientific processes; supervisory control and data acquisition software; Indexes; Local area networks; Reliability; Remote laboratories; SCADA systems; Visualization; SCADA systems; engineering education; process control; remote laboratories;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV), 2013 10th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sydney, NSW

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-6345-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-6344-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/REV.2013.6502912

Filename

6502912