Remote Control and Monitoring of Accelerators and Detectors in a Global Facility (GAN/GDN)

Abstract

Future accelerators and experiments are operated by large international collaborations and typically by dispersed teams of experts. The facilities will be operated over many years and even decades. It will be prohibitive to maintain a complete staff of experts at the site. The load of regular visits of the site is tremendously eased when experts can take action remotely. The demand for reliable remote monitoring and control is thus paramount. This paper describes a comprehensive solution which is being provided by the GANMVL-collaboration within EuroTeV. An important feature of the toll is that the implementation details are well hidden from the user to increase the public acceptance. The tools employed are based on web-browsers granting access to VNC, to VRVS and in the future EVO, to facility internal web-pages, to cameras and allow to control instruments. They include Single Sign On authentication so that security requirements can be met. Using standard interfaces the user need not be concerned with the technology of the instruments. The paper will include a demonstration of the current status of development.