Specifications of the Lab Owner and Cloud Services (initial) – M21 revision

This deliverable elaborates on the Go-Lab vision for the integration of existingand new remote laboratories, with the Go-Lab infrastructure. For instance,remote labs could integrate with the Go-Lab booking system (see D4.2), thelearning analytics services (see D4.2) or specific apps (e.g., a data viewer appcould read from sensors and actuators of any remote lab).For new remote laboratories, this deliverable provides a client-server architecture,based on the Smart Device paradigm, with specifications that detail therequired services, protocols and data formats. Next to that, additional servicesare suggested that can ease integration with the Go-Lab infrastructure or supportrequired services. Furthermore, we provide guidelines for functionalitiesinternal to the Smart Device. The Smart Device paradigm conceptualizes andembeds the lab-owner services.On the other hand, for already existing labs, Go-Lab proposes the Smart Gatewayparadigm, which aims to make legacy labs compatible with the Smart Deviceparadigm. Through this compatibility, such legacy labs can be integratedin the Go-Lab infrastructure. Due to the wide technical variety of legacy remotelabs, we provide different levels of compatibility through the Smart Gateway.The Smart Gateway paradigm conceptualizes and embeds the cloud services.This deliverable is a revised version of the D4.1 deliverable submitted in M12and contains improved, extended and more detailed specifications. The ‘partner’deliverable D4.3 provides implementation examples and documentation ofthe software packages to develop remote labs using the Smart Device andSmart Gateway paradigms. An update of the specifications presented in thisdeliverable will be provided in D4.5 (M30)