“…In addition, real-time remote health monitoring systems can acquire and process data to evaluate long bridge structure reliability (Jianting et al, 2006). Regarding the educational field, there is a web-based remote control laboratory that employs a greenhouse scale model for teaching greenhouse climate control techniques using different hardware and software platforms (Guzmán et al, 2005), and also a virtual laboratory that permits remote access via Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), enabling control and supervision through the Internet (Garbus et al, 2006). In addition, the results of an evaluation of remote monitoring in home health care show a reduction in nursing visit and hospitalization rates in the remote monitoring patient group (Rosati, 2009).…”