1. Automation:
Let us explain you through a finished project, as shortly as possible.
Do not forget to look through the pictures
(clicking on the red links):
Cultivation chambers are used in scientific laboratories. This chamber (Rubarth type) can keep the inside temperature and light unaffected by the outside conditions. Inside it there is a cooling air-compressor, a heating resistance and lamps at the sides. All of these components are power supplied through regular connections to the public power network.
All the devices are also connected by special modules to the local computer where our application is running. This is connected to the Inernet. You can view what is going on in the lab, but only a few people can alter the adjustments.
2. Internet Related Applications
i. If you read the above section, you have already seen one example of how you can use the Internet to interact (exchange information) with your lab, office, factory, farm or any other facility that is controlled by a computer-based system.
ii. This Web Site that you are reading through is just an online presentation of our work at NetLab . It is a fast, simple and direct way to provide you with all this information about NetLab , i.e. to communicate with you.
iii. Now, let us talk about more sophisticated applications. We shall use a real project to give you the concept:
A data base is just an organized (structured) way to store any kind
of data, so that this data can be readily accessed and used by other applications.
This database includes information on 3000 plants of Greece. It
has been created by the Sector of Botany of the Univ. of Athens. It is
a very serious scientific work. Though, it could only be used off-line; in
other words, by a few people holding a copy. Even fewer people could have
the latest update, although it includes vital information for certain scientists
and professionals. "Why not to offer it online and raise some money to
fund further research to enrich it?" they thaught and they contacted NetLab :
We built this
Web application to allow any potential web-visitor to get this data
by submitting a query and getting the data he needs. Since he does not
access the database itself, he cannot affect any of the data or characteristics
of it, so that it is safe and secure.
You might not be a scientist and not interested at all about plants but databases can contain any kind of data according to your needs. It could be a product catalog if you had an online store, a list of text-documents if you were an editor or a journalist, a number of pictures and informations if you held a museum or a tourist agency, whatever; they are all data to be held in a database. Share it with the world.
