This paper presents the architecture of a lightweight system aiming to provide practical experiments to students in measurement science education, using a clientless approach. The system is based on a web application, with the support of the guacamole-lite library. It can provide access to instrumentation on a local network, equipped with Virtual Network Computing (VNC), Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) interface, or legacy interfaces, supported by the Virtual Instrument Software Architecture (VISA). Compared with similar proposals in the recent scientific literature, it provides an interface not only to a single instrument but the overall experiment, even including multiple instruments, which is usually not available from clientless solutions.
A Lightweight Architecture of Remote Experiment Access Provider for Measurement Science Education
Daponte P.;De Vito L.;Rapuano S.
2025-01-01
Abstract
This paper presents the architecture of a lightweight system aiming to provide practical experiments to students in measurement science education, using a clientless approach. The system is based on a web application, with the support of the guacamole-lite library. It can provide access to instrumentation on a local network, equipped with Virtual Network Computing (VNC), Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) interface, or legacy interfaces, supported by the Virtual Instrument Software Architecture (VISA). Compared with similar proposals in the recent scientific literature, it provides an interface not only to a single instrument but the overall experiment, even including multiple instruments, which is usually not available from clientless solutions.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
