Internet-based measurement technology, electrical drives and automation

摘要

The rapid growth of fast and reliable communication networks provides an easy exchange of information and commands between computers connected to sites of wide area networks such as the internet. Engineers from far away workstations can operate various remote equipment through the internet. Engineering is transformed into a constructive joint effort within the framework of simulation and exploration. Engineers share information at a rapid pace, with the collective aim of increasing the quality of product, process and service and reducing development time and costs. With the latter-day technology available, it reaches the same objectives as for a hands-on laboratory, and even more efficiently in most cases. The application properties now range right up to the internet-controlled visualization of processes far away from the platforms. University of Miskolc Department contributed to the solution of these challenges by an virtual laboratory serving the Ethernet network-based industrial measurement systems to all users through an “open for all” web site by Fieldpoint and General Purpose Interface Bus (GPIB) modules.