A survey on collaborative remote experimentation

Abstract

Experimental laboratories in technical institute are important part of the education areas. It demonstrates course concepts and brings theoretical ideas alive so students can more visualize and understand facts of theoretical concepts. Natural phenomenon affects the real world measurement and control the working algorithm.However, equipping a laboratory ubiquitously is an effective in cost and its maintenance can be difficult. Teaching assistants are required to instruct and setting up the well equipped laboratory, and grade the student report. These time-consuming and costly tasks turns in relatively low equipped laboratory also when teaching assistants and laboratory equipment are available experiments can be driven out.A lightweight web server as well as website interface has been developed, which restricts cost efficient laboratory equipment and measures electronic devices as "virtual laboratory" for any technical institute experiments to undergraduate as well as post graduate students. It uses standard browsers without additional plug-ins to provide interface to any user. The present interface is flexible and could be expanded to many other devices and instruments.

A maturity model for the effective digital transformation of laboratories

“…Furthermore, efficiency describes the amount and duration of machine resources required (Elawady and Tolba, 2010). The degree of technical support required to maintain complex and costly engineering equipment is a fundamental concern (Gode and Madankar, 2013). Vendor responsiveness can be critical.…”

“…Vendor responsiveness can be critical. Considerations include whether multiple instances are operated and to what extent technical administrators are available to support the lab and answer technical questions (Gode and Madankar, 2013;Zutin et al, 2010). Exception handlers that find, fix or report anomalies are also used to save resources (Ying and Zhu, 2004).…”

“…This makes online labs candidates for the use of shared knowledge, shared infrastructure, and shared facilities through the application of ICT technology. This online lab sharing approach has already been discussed by Seiler (2012) on lab as a service, by Uckelmann (2012) for JMTM 34,4 sharing logistic labs, by Gode and Madankar (2013) on promoting lab sharing, by Heradio et al (2016a) on cross-institutional lab sharing, by Orduna et al (2016) on lab sharing economy platforms and by Kammerlohr et al (2021) on business models for lab sharing.…”