A World-Wide-Web based instrumentation pool real testing in a virtual world

Abstract

This paper proposes an original new way for integrating training of advanced measurement equipment in education at University level. It uses some of the WWW features such as the ability to have multimedia documents, the simplicity of the HTLM syntax and particularly the Web's networked structure. The basic idea is, that on the one side there is an instrumentation pool, that means a number of instruments located anywhere in the world. On the other side a detailed description of the instrument and its front panel are available on the WEB and can be accessed by any Web browser for a specific declared user's group. This link permits students to learn the use of advanced measurement equipment, to perform real measurements with instruments not available at the University.