Survey Of Labview Technologies For Building Web/Internet Enabled Experimental Setups

The impact of World Wide Web on education has gone beyond the text and multimedia based instruction in course offering through the Web. Today, a number of universities, national laboratories and companies are using Web/Internet-enabled applications that can be fully controlled and monitored from remote locations. Continuous advances in computers and electronics coupled with falling prices in these industries have made Web/Internet -based technologies less costly than before, particularly for educational organizations. Thus, it is more affordable to invest in these technologies that are essential for both expanding education over Web and further improving and advancing such technologies. The LabVIEW software from National Instruments company has significantly helped researchers and educators to integrate Internet/Web with experimental setups in various methods. Some of these methods have been also improved and further advanced by other companies to greatly facilitate the implementation of Web/Internet-enabled technologies. This paper presents a survey of Web/Internet-enabled technologies to build experimental setups that can fully be operated, controlled and monitored remotely. Both advantages and disadvantages of each of these technologies are discussed and evaluated.