Work-In-Progress: Remote Laboratory with a Microcontroller System as the Server

Sustainability of Internet based remote laboratories is a major issue. Two of the reasons are development costs and the complicated design of such systems. This paper will report the design and development details of a remote laboratory system in which a commercially available microcontroller system will be used to replace the costly workstation and server. The proposed system uses an Arduino board to reduce the implementation costs and design complicacy as well as the physical size of the system. The development process has allow the group to understand the capabilities and challenges of microcontrollers for remote laboratory applications. Considering this is a work-in-progress, this paper provides a development description of the system; full details will be reported at a later stage.