An Update to the iLab Shared Architecture for Mobile Device Support

Authors

  • Olawale Babatunde Akinwale Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9570-0429
  • Lawrence Olakunle Kehinde Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3991/ijoe.v13i02.6640

Keywords:

iLab Shared Architecture, WebSockets, Laboratory Server, Mobile Device

Abstract


A number of remote laboratories and virtual laboratories have been created which support the mobile devices factor. The focus of a number of researchers at present is on the platforms which supports these online laboratories. This paper presents the solution we developed. The platform we developed is a modification of the iLab Shared Architecture (ISA) which was originally created by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It was expanded to include SMS services and WebSocket services. The goal was to ensure that it is able to support all mobile phones and tablets. Feature phones can perform experiments via SMS and tablets can use HTML5 based applications while personal computers can use the original ISA services.

Author Biographies

Olawale Babatunde Akinwale, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria

Olawale B. Akinwale earned his first degree at the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, finishing with first class honors in 2004. He obtained his MSc and PhD degrees from the same department in 2011 and 2016 respectively. He is a lecturer at the Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife in Electronic and Electrical Engineering, majoring in Instrumentation. He is also a lab developer in the OAU iLab Research Group. He developed the first reported robotic arm remote lab in Africa making use if the MIT iLab shared architecture and National Instruments LabVIEW. His interests include online experimentation, methods in enhancing pedagogy, mobile applications, machine learning and artificial intelligence, and home automation.

Lawrence Olakunle Kehinde, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria

Professor Lawrence Kunle Kehinde, a former Departmental chair, Engineering dean and University Deputy vice chancellor, received his B.Sc. 1st class Honors in Electronics in 1971, and a Ph.D.in Control Engineering in 1975, at the University of Sussex UK. As a fellow of the international Atomic Energy Agency; He had his postdoctoral studies in Nuclear Instrumentation at the University of California, Berkeley from 1977 to 1978. He has spent most of his years as a professor of Instrumentation Engineering at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Nigeria. He was the rector of the first private Polytechnic in Nigeria. He recently concluded a three-year visiting professor term at the Texas Southern University, Houston, Texas. He has worked in Techno-Managerial position as the director of ICT at OAU for years. His major field is Instrumentation Designs and has designed equipment. He was the founding principal investigator of the University’s iLab research and he currently designs remote and virtual experiments for remote experimentation. He is a chartered engineer, a fellow of both the Computer Association of Nigeria, and
Computer Professionals of Nigeria and a member of IEEE and ASEE. He has over 75 publications in Journals and Proceedings. He also jointly has two British Patents in the past.

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Published

2017-02-27

How to Cite

Akinwale, O. B., & Kehinde, L. O. (2017). An Update to the iLab Shared Architecture for Mobile Device Support. International Journal of Online and Biomedical Engineering (iJOE), 13(02), pp. 87–101. https://doi.org/10.3991/ijoe.v13i02.6640

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 02 (2017)

Section

Papers