Remote experimentation: integrating research, education, and industrial applica...

• Author(s): Silva, Juarez Bento da ; Alves, J. B. M. ; Alves, Gustavo R.
• Date: 2007
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/4646
• Origin: Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico do Porto
• Subject(s): Remote experimentation; Embedded web servers; Micro web-server; Remote monitoring and controlling
• Document Type: Article
• Language: English

Description

This paper presents a low-cost scaled model of a silo for drying and airing cereal grains. It allows the control and monitor of several parameters associated to the silo's operation, through a remote accessible infrastructure. The scaled model consists of a 2.50 m wide × 2.10 m long plant with all control and monitor capacities provided by micro-Web servers. An application running on the micro-Web servers enables storing all parameters in a data basis for later analysis. The implemented model aims to support a remote experimentation facility for technological education, research-oriented tutorials, and industrial applications. Given the low-cost requirement, this remote facility can be easily replicated in other institutions to support a network of remote labs, which encompasses the concurrent access of several users (e.g. students).