Implementation of Laboratory At Distance (LAD): Specific considerations and recommendations

The laboratory of a course is considered as a fundamental part of the education and training for engineers and scientists. Remote laboratories are increasingly finding their way into a variety of disciplines. Development and operation of remote laboratory work are specific process in several dimensions (technological, pedagogical, organizational, etc.). We present in this article some typical characteristics of this process. We will limit ourselves to consider the specificities related to communication between the remote user and the laboratory equipment. We will consider also the problems related to planning and access control and we will highlight aspects related to safety and the initialization of the state of a bench for a new experiment starting at distance.