ARCADIA - Augmented Reality for Commercial and Didactical Applications

Interface boards to be connected to electronic laboratory instrumentation to enable its remote control without the need for personal computers or own interfaces for network connection. More specifically, thanks to a protocol typical of the Internet of Things (MQTT), the interface board allows commands and data to be exchanged between the instrumentation and the user without special limitations and requirements from the point of view of development environments and hardware. In its IEEE488 version shown in the figure, the interface board translates the aforementioned MQTT messages into commands that comply with the protocol typically used by laboratory instrumentation and allows the user to receive the corresponding required measurement data and results. This interface board can be tailored to include other communication protocols; versions currently in production or in development allow connection with USB, Ethernet and CANbus protocol devices.

Development of augmented reality applications that can run on smartphone or tablet devices with Android/IoS operating system. In an augmented reality application, the target image is, in fact, used to place the 3D virtual object in the scene. Specifically, the application starts the camera of the exploited device and shows everything it records on the display. A special software module constantly processes the image in search of the target. When the latter enters the camera's field of view, the application renders 3D digital replicas of the tools by superimposing them on the marker in the scene captured by the device, thus creating the augmented reality effect. Such replicas are interactive and constantly communicate with real objects.