Laboratories Over the Network: From Remote to Mobile

Modern technologies allow to create a networked control system with off-the-shelf mobile devices. As such, there is the possibility of having the role of who offers and who uses a “remote” laboratory played by the same people. Extending recently published ideas, the paper presents a first nucleus of functionalities allowing one to create process simulators and controllers which run on a mobile application, and then share them with others. Some words are also spent on some of the possibilities opened by the proposal, sketching out some interesting didactic activities to propose to the students.