Hi, I’m Gobinath Tamil Vanan,
the Bench Product Marketing Engineer at Keysight Technologies.
In this short video, I’ll share an overview of Keysight PathWave
Lab Operations for Remote Learning.
Paired with Keysight Smart Bench Essentials solution,
this software delivers a complete cloud-connected
remote learning and teaching capabilities
tailored specifically for higher-education lab environments.
With PathWave Lab Operations for Remote Learning,
students can connect and remotely access their lab setup
and perform lab work through a web browser.
The administrative side of the software
gives the educator complete control over web-based lab studies
and instrument scheduling,
while the student-facing interface allows for instrument control
and remote access for measurement and analysis.
With this software,
lab managers and educators can register,
authenticate, and grant access to remote users.
PathWave Lab Operations for Remote Learning
is accessible through web browser,
and provides secure remote access to specific lab resources.
The software allows for different user roles and permissions,
so an organization can have specific roles
and capabilities for admins, lecturers, and students.
The admin role can manage the entire bench,
while lecturer and student roles
can only view and connect to an assigned bench.
The Bench Management tab lets the lecturer or admin
to display a list of test benches,
and sort them according to their names, status, or access levels.
One of the toughest challenges faced by lecturers
in online learning is managing lab resource scheduling for remote students.
PathWave Lab Operations for Remote Learning automates this process.
Students can view available time slots,
schedule a preferred lab session,
and even invite other students to their group.
Entire schedules can be viewed, approved,
or rejected by administrators and lecturers.
Once approved, students can view the lists
of the instruments available to the approved bench,
connect to the bench, and begin the remote lab session.
This application helps organizations maximize resources
by enabling scheduled remote access and multi-user remote access
to a single test bench at the same time.
This allows groups of students within a lab session
to share a single bench,
while other students or lecturers can use another station concurrently.
The Lab Operations software delivers a complete remote learning experience,
including a chatroom and file transfer functions.
With the chatroom application,
students and lecturers can have a live.
real-time remote discussion and engagement.
Lecturers can interact and facilitate group collaboration
to teach techniques and facilitate learning.
The file transfer function allows users
to transfer important files to and from the remote bench,
including instrument state files, configuration files,
measurement data, screen captures,
and other classroom materials.
Through this exceptional learning experience,
students will build valuable skills and familiarity with
industry-grade test and measurement instruments and software.
They’ll develop practical experience and application knowledge
that will serve them in their future careers as electrical engineers.
For the first time,
educators can deliver a fully remote learning lab environment,
with the Smart Bench Essentials and the PathWave Remote Access Lab software,
providing turnkey cloud-based setup
and remote access to your lab environment and instruments.
Check out our other videos to learn more
about the Smart Bench Essentials product family.