Laboratories Accessible through the Internet

ever, difficulties arise when it comes to providing remote control access to the instrument over the Internet. Now, the issues are how to transfer local instrument control to a distant location, how to interface a distant user with a piece of equipment, and what communication protocol and software tools to use to enable good communication. Although these issues have been previously addressed, no satisfactory model has been developed that can allow multiple distance users to run the same experiment simultaneously in real time. Usually, users must be equipped with the same specific software in order to run the process. Furthermore, the host computer must send them complementary replicas of the application running on it (experiment), with prescribed communication channels for each prospective user. It is obvious that this approach significantly diminishes the number of potential users and requires tight coordination between the host and clients. The concept proposed in this article does not suffer from the drawbacks mentioned above. It provides versatility, cost-effectiveness and simplicity while retaining data acquisition and computational power. We also provide the description of our proposed model and a couple of examples.