Remote Monitoring of Lab Experiments to Enhance Collaboration between Universities

Authors

  • Arshad Ali Islamic University in MAdinah

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31449/inf.v46i2.3840

Abstract

LabView is used to design the system to monitor and control lab experiments remotely over the Internet. Web based embedded system is designed and presented in this paper along with required hardware to perform experiments remotely in allocated time slot. A unique system is designed to monitor and control room temperature remotely. To assess the performance of the designed system and the hardware, an experiment is designed to control room temperature remotely. The Temperature Control System (TCS) publish over the internet by using web server along with embedded live video of the equipment to control and change various required variables. LabView and the equipment from National Instruments is used to perform the experiment and the designed system can be controlled anywhere from the planet by using secure login detail only which exist in the database of server. As the experiments take long time to be completed and during this time the performer need to be presented in the Lab. By implementing this type of system, it will save the time of the performer and it can be utilized in other activities. Also by designing and implementing this approach students from other Universities can also utilized the hardware and collaboration between institutions will be enhanced. The designed system presented in this article shows promising results which are presented in coming sections of this paper. The performed experiments are recorded and banked in the repository of the institution for future reference along with results.

Author Biography

Arshad Ali, Islamic University in MAdinah

Dr. Ali is Associate Professor of Information Technology and Head of Accreditation & Quality at Islamic University, Al Madinah Al Munawarah, Saudi Arabia. He holds the current post since 2018. He specializes in the area of Wireless Sensor Network. He also working with ABET as Program Evaluator (PEV). He also available for ABET Accreditation consultancy in private capacity.He was born in Punjab, Pakistan, most of his early education from local city. He finish his BSc in Mathematics and Statistics from University of Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan in 2000 and completed his Masters in Computer Sciences from Iqra University, Lahore, Pakistan. After completing his Masters, he worked as Lecturer in Private College in Pakistan. In 2005, he moved to Birmingham, UK for further studies. He joined Aston University, Birmingham, UK and obtained his MSc Telecommunication Technology in 2007. In 2007, he joined Geotechnical Group, Department of Engineering, and University of Cambridge as Research Ass. (2007- 2009). In 2009, he was awarded a PhD (2009- 2012) scholarship from the Lancaster University, UK and he awarded PhD in 2012.He worked on the UK-NEES project and designed communication system for live experimentation between UK Universities (Cambridge, Oxford and Bristol). He was also part of the project at University of Cambridge “Installing Wireless Sensors in London Underground Tunnels” and it was collaborated with Imperial College, London. He is currently working as Assistant Professor and the Head of the Quality and Accreditation (ABET, NCAAA) in Islamic University Al Madinah Al Munawarah, KSA. His research interests are in the field of Wireless Sensor Network, Target Tracking over Sensor Network, Multisensor Data Fusion and Structural Health Monitoring by using Wireless Sensor Network. Currently, I am working as Associate Professor and Head of Quality and Accreditation at Islamic University. Partly, I am teaching different Information Technology Modules and I heading the two different accreditation (ABET, NCAAA). I am managing Quality improvement efforts and establish teaching and learning strategies at my current university. I am leading assessment methodology for Quality & Accreditation process. I have expertise on development of outcomes, Performance indicators (PI's). We are working to submit Initial SSR in November 2016. This workshop will very helpful to prepare the final SSR for ABET accreditation. Since December 2014, I am working with Quality & Accreditation office and I have nearly 2 years of experience in this process to prepare Student Outcome based education. As the most of the Universities working ABET accreditation to get accredited by ABET. I am also working in this environment since December, 2014. It is very much needed to attend the workshop to understand this process deeply. It will very helpful for me to prepare final SSR next year. I also want to join the Evaluation Team for ABET accreditation in future and enhance my career further in the field of quality and accreditation. In near future it will be very important to get ABET accreditation and I want to be the part of this system now.

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2022-06-15

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Ali, A. (2022). Remote Monitoring of Lab Experiments to Enhance Collaboration between Universities. Informatica, 46(2). https://doi.org/10.31449/inf.v46i2.3840

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Vol. 46 No. 2 (2022)

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