Platform Independent Interface for Remote Laboratory Experiments

A remote laboratory experiment is an online experiment that requires only external input through the internet to control. These days, online experiments have not been widespread in the use of engineering curriculum because of their complexity in both development and use. We advocate the development and use of a set of protocols to control an experiment through a mixture of the Web 2.0 technologies to provide users with an interactive interface that does not require any additional software to be installed. This dynamic interface will be compatible with most of the currently available and commonly used web browsers and operating systems available. A scheduler server will used for scheduling between the client and the experiment in order to provide scheduling and a database for the experiment to store its information. This scheduler server can handle many experiments at once in order to provide students with a more complete experience in the remote laboratory experiment field.