Augmented Reality Laboratory for Instrumentationand Measurements Online Course

The limitations due to the SARS-Cov-2 pandemic affected both interactions between people and work activities; particularly in the educational field. In fact, the students were forced to face the lessons from home, which did not bring problems in the understanding of theoretical aspects, but turned out to be a problem regarding the laboratory activities, since they did not have the possibility to test on real instruments what they learned in theory. In this sense, this article describes the development of a remote laboratory in augmented reality, which allows instruments to be faithfully replicated on any portable device available to the students. Furthermore, by exploiting the protocols typical of the Internet of Things, it is possible to guarantee proper control of the real workstation by interacting with the one in augmented reality.