Eppes, T., & Schuyler, P. (2005, June), Novel Distance Laboratory Labview Control Panel  Paper presented at 2005 Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon. 10.18260/1-2--15200

\bibitem{asee_peer_15200}
  Eppes, T., \& Schuyler, P. (2005, June), \emph{Novel Distance Laboratory Labview Control Panel}
  Paper presented at 2005 Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon.
  10.18260/1-2--15200

Tom Eppes and Peter Schuyler.  "Novel Distance Laboratory Labview Control Panel".  2005 Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon, 2005, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2005.  https://peer.asee.org/15200 Internet.  22 Apr, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_15200}
  Tom Eppes and Peter Schuyler.
  "Novel Distance Laboratory Labview Control Panel".
  \emph{2005 Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon, 2005, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2005.
  https://peer.asee.org/15200 Internet.  22 Apr, 2024

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author = "Tom Eppes and Peter Schuyler"
title = "Novel Distance Laboratory Labview Control Panel"
booktitle = "2005 Annual Conference"
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month = "June"
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publisher = "ASEE Conferences"
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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - The paper discusses the use of National Instrument’s LabVIEW for distance laboratory
experiments. LabVIEW is being used in conjunction with a proprietary distance laboratory
system called ALTE (Automated Laboratory Test Environment). ALTE is used by students in
the Electronic & Computer Engineering Technology (ECET) Department at the University of
Hartford to perform experiments over the Internet on a 24/7 basis. The system architecture
consists of a management server that provides access control and archived experimental
procedures. The management server interfaces to a number of lab stations that each host specific
distance experiments. Each lab station consists of a dedicated PC running National Instrument’s
LabVIEW virtual instrument panels (VIPs). VIPs send commands and retrieve data from
measurement equipment that is connected to devices under test (DUT) and provide a browserbased
user interface for students.
VIPs play two primary roles: (1) they provide connectivity between the measurement
instruments and the PC lab station and (2) they are embedded in web pages that are used by
students to perform distance labs. During the development of ALTE, we discovered that the
performance of a lab station PC could be improved if there was one VIP, hereafter referred to as
the Master VIP, that programmatically opened and closed the experiment specific VIP’s. Master
VIP acted as a switch to open on demand any experiment VIP and monitored the student’s
connection to ensure that it was active, if not active or the window was closed, it closed the
experiment VIP once the lab session ended. Master VIP ran in the background and did not have a
web interface that was visible to students.
We successfully developed and implemented Master VIP and found that it kept memory use in
check, cleaned the system tray of experiment VIPs no longer in session, and improved overall
system performance. In addition, it prevented students from bypassing the ALTE management
server and navigating directly to an experiment VIP providing an added level of security for the
system. This paper discusses the structure and results in using Master VIP as part of the ALTE
system.
AU  - Tom Eppes
AU  - Peter Schuyler
CY  - Portland, Oregon
DA  - 2005/06/12
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - Novel Distance Laboratory Labview Control Panel
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DO  - 10.18260/1-2--15200
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