World wide web‐controlled scanning electron microscope

Chand, G.; Breton, BC; Caldwell, Nicholas; Holburn, DM

doi:10.1002/sca.4950190408

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“…As web technologies were booming and achieving more improvements than other distributed computing technologies, global manufacturing systems became possible and received more attentions than ever. Chand et al [4] have developed a webbased scanning electron microscope system, which enabled an operator to adjust the scanning electron microscope's parameters via web. The scanning system was deployed in Microsoft Windows™ operating system and CGI (Common Gateway Interface) was used to receive and send static data, such as string, file, and image.…”

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<title>Web-based remote machine control system in Java</title>

Lee

2000

Network Intelligence: Internet-Based Manufacturing

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Rapidly evolving information technology, especially World Wide Web (WWW), brought many innovative changes to people's lives and businesses. Information technology not only influences people's daily lives and business but also impacts on manufacturing. As computers become powerful and affordable, factories introduced computers to their shop floor to integrate manufacturing since 1980's. Because manufacturing industries tend to acquire world-wide manufacturing facilities, it got difficult to set up, control, maintain, and optimize to facilitate manufacturing resources on global sites. However, little work has been done in the area of global manufacturing until recently. A Web-Based Machine Control System (WMCS), which controls remote manufacturing resources using a general-purpose web browser has been implemented at Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) laboratory of Northeastern University. This research presents a framework and Java implementation of WMCS for Manufacturing. The general-purpose web browser has been used as a front-end interface to interact with WMCS through HTTP (Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol) protocol.

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Lee

2000

Network Intelligence: Internet-Based Manufacturing

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“…Early experimentation with scanning electron microscopes (SEM) showed that information such as images, X-ray spectra and parameter data could be shared among geographically dispersed investigators in real time through the Internet Chand et al 1997).…”

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Remote microscopy: a success story in Australian and New Zealand plant biosecurity

Thompson

Lyons

Kumarasinghe

et al. 2011

Australian Journal of Entomology

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Rapid and accurate identification of organisms is crucial to many research and applied outcomes. Diagnostics is a critical first step in determining the significance of suspected biosecurity threats posed by emergency plant pests and other invasive pests and pathogens. Traditionally, the biological specimens needing identification are physically mailed to a dispersed community of taxonomic experts for determination. While effective, this is an expensive, labour-intensive and slow process, often taking days to receive a confirmed identification. Remote microscopy creates virtual, real-time networks of experts using web-based cameras mounted on microscopes that allow interactive access to real-time images of scientific specimens from anywhere in the world via the Internet. Trials conducted by the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry Biosecurity New Zealand to test the efficacy of remote microscopy in plant quarantine settings showed that in Australia a diagnosis to a level at which realistic biosecurity decisions could be made occurred on 77% of occasions, while in New Zealand high impact exotic pest status was determined during 92% of the diagnostic events, and regulatory status was determined during 96% of events. These positive results are leading towards the expansion of remote microscopy throughout Australia, New Zealand and into South-East Asia, as well as widening its role as part of online diagnostic frameworks.

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“…The success of this classroom was widely disseminated and the rapid development of remote-control computerbased microscopes began. A Philips XL30 microscope was adapted at the University of Michigan to allow remote operation on campus using PC Anywhere (URL: http://apps.internet2.edu//demos97/sem.htm) while developments by researchers at LEO (Chand et al, 1996(Chand et al, , 1997 demonstrated that remote operation using the Java language and the worldwide web was feasible. Within a short time all microscope companies were advertising remote-control features of some sort, often using a combination of third-party software such as CU-SeeMe, PC Anywhere, or Microsoft's Net-Meeting.…”

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Development of a web‐based SEM specifically for K–12 education

Chumbley¹,

Cassucio²,

Kritikos³

et al. 2002

Microscopy Res & Technique

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The scanning electron microscope (SEM) is uniquely suited for use in education due to its ability to produce clear three-dimensional-looking images of virtually any sample. Elementary and secondary science textbooks regularly contain SEM images of bugs, plants, human tissue, rocks, etc. as a means of illustrating the microscopic world to students. However, despite the widespread use of SEM images for educational purposes microscope companies have virtually ignored the area of education in their development and design of SEMs, due presumably to a perceived lack of marketing potential in this area. This article presents the results of a program aimed at developing a Web-based SEM that is specifically designed for educational use by students and teachers in pre-college classrooms. While virtually all companies tout some form of remote control, no concerted effort has been made to fully develop these capabilities for use by the education sector. The microscope under development, termed the WebSEM, seeks to remedy this situation and address this neglected market. Remote control of the WebSEM is possible by means of a simple web interface that allows the users a wide range of controls, depending on the skill of the operator at the remote site. The web interface is specifically designed to be simple and reliable such that little or no training is required for use. This joint effort between educators and a microscope manufacturer is the first attempt at the development of a truly education-oriented SEM suitable for use in the classroom.

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World wide web‐controlled scanning electron microscope

Cited by 15 publications

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<title>Web-based remote machine control system in Java</title>

<title>Web-based remote machine control system in Java</title>

Remote microscopy: a success story in Australian and New Zealand plant biosecurity

Development of a web‐based SEM specifically for K–12 education

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