The instruments are located in a laboratory in Roberts Hall at Carnegie Mellon. A PC with a direct ethernet connection runs Labview 5. Labview 5 is instrument control software which includes a web server for direct interface to the web. You specify the measurement parameters in a form which causes parameters to be sent to the web server using a GET protocol. Labview virtual instruments parse a string obtained from the web server in order to extract the measurement parameters. These are used to set up the instrument which is connected to the PC by an IEEE-488 bus. The measurements is performed and data is returned to the PC and plotted by Labview. The plot along with the parameter values are returned in the form of a .gif image incorporated into a web page. The numerical data is also sent to your email address.
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