The remote experiment compatibility with Internet of Things

Abstract

A short view on the remote experiment in 2016 allows us to affirm that it represents: "an infusion of technology in learning environment" and also "the transformation of technology in catalyst of learning". After some years of the remote experiment implementation and its use as a new tool in teaching/leaning, we are able to notice that, together with e-learning, we assist at an important process regarding the movement of education process from "knowledge transfer" to a "mixture of blended, collaborative, and active with in-class model". The evolution of the digital reality, in this period of the remote experiment implementation, becomes so important that laws defined at the beginning as an exercise have been confirmed by reality, and start to have important effects. We are referring to: Moores' law: "...the number of transistors on integrated circuits doubles approximately every 18 months." [1]. The confirmation of the veracity of this law consists in the spectacular increasing of the processing speed and memory capacity. Neilsen's law: "...the connection speed increases by 50% per year." [1]. In education the effects of this law are not proportional because telecom companies - being conservative - act as a break, and because users do not want to spend much money on bandwidth. Edholm's law: "...the curve of growth of wireless connections is more rapid than wire-line growth.". Kryder's law: "...hard drive storage capacity doubles every 12 months in the case of HDDs and doubles every 18 months in the case of solid state storages." [1]. Metcalf's law: "...the physical cost of the network grows linearly when it increases while its value grows exponentially, being proportional with the square of the number of connected users.". In this landscape, remote experiment encapsulates the idea that laboratory work or industrial applications embedded with sensors and actuators, sustained with proper software and connected wirelessly to the Internet - improved the education system in terms of content, speed, cost and so on. At other angle of vision, this phenomenon might be considered as: massive integration of the physical world in cyber space.