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In the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, remote laboratories offer a new opportunity to increase the number of hours devoted to scientific experiments. Universities facing the growing number of students need to pool their equipment. This article describes an implementation, based on microservices, of a remote lab management and federation solution. This solution uses the ThingsBoard platform interfaced by a REST API. The feasibility has been demonstrated by the deployment of eight instances of practical work used by 120 students.
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This work is partially supported by the ReLaTraPE project funded by the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) and by the e-LIVES project funded by the European Commission, under agreement number 2017-2891/001-001. The European Commission support for the production of this publication does not constitute an endorsement of the contents which reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
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Moussa, M., Benachenhou, A., Belghit, S., Adda Benattia, A., Boumehdi, A. (2021). An Implementation of Microservices Based Architecture for Remote Laboratories. In: Auer, M., May, D. (eds) Cross Reality and Data Science in Engineering. REV 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1231. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52575-0_12
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