DEVELOPMENT OF OPEN CODE APPLICATION FOR REMOTE MEASUREMENTS

Alexandre de Almeida Prado Pohl, Simone Müller Vidal, Haroldo Stark Filho, Keiko Ono Fonseca

2004

Abstract

New Web-based monitoring and control system applications have been developed to allow remote control of equipments. Although interesting and useful, such applications present hidden costs related to software development tools, annual software licensing, regular maintenance and upgrades. This paper presents an application tool for controlling instruments over the Web developed using open code resource, such as Linux, JAVA and CamServ. The application shows a potential use for laboratories dealing with different types of equipment conformance testing. The developed tool allows access to the instrument’s screen through a video streaming process, an alternative towards similar application, in which data is first acquired and then plotted using graphical tools. First tests over a 10 Mbps LAN Network and 1 Gbps Ethernet Inter-Universities Network evaluated latency times and the video quality versus video signal acquisition system. Specification and development issues are described, as well testing and validation schemes of the developed application.

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in Harvard Style

de Almeida Prado Pohl A., Müller Vidal S., Stark Filho H. and Ono Fonseca K. (2004). DEVELOPMENT OF OPEN CODE APPLICATION FOR REMOTE MEASUREMENTS . In Proceedings of the First International Conference on E-Business and Telecommunication Networks - Volume 1: ICETE, ISBN 972-8865-15-5, pages 33-38. DOI: 10.5220/0001393600330038


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icete04,
author={Alexandre de Almeida Prado Pohl and Simone Müller Vidal and Haroldo Stark Filho and Keiko Ono Fonseca},
title={DEVELOPMENT OF OPEN CODE APPLICATION FOR REMOTE MEASUREMENTS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the First International Conference on E-Business and Telecommunication Networks - Volume 1: ICETE,},
year={2004},
pages={33-38},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001393600330038},
isbn={972-8865-15-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the First International Conference on E-Business and Telecommunication Networks - Volume 1: ICETE,
TI - DEVELOPMENT OF OPEN CODE APPLICATION FOR REMOTE MEASUREMENTS
SN - 972-8865-15-5
AU - de Almeida Prado Pohl A.
AU - Müller Vidal S.
AU - Stark Filho H.
AU - Ono Fonseca K.
PY - 2004
SP - 33
EP - 38
DO - 10.5220/0001393600330038