Martin Ettl
Type of contribution: oral
Session: 2

e-RemoteCtrl: Concepts for VLBI station control as part of NEXPReS

M. Ettl, FESG, TU M\"unchen / MPIfR A. Neidhardt, FESG, TU M\"unchen M. M\"ahlbauer W. Alef, MPIfR E. Himwich, NVI Inc, NASA/GSFC C. Beaudoin, MIT Haystack Observatory C. Pl\"otz J. Lovell

In the "Novel EXploration Pushing Robust e-VLBI Services"-project (NEXPReS) the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) realizes concepts for continuous quality monitoring and station remote control in cooperation with the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Bonn. NEXPReS is a three-year project, funded within the European Seventh Framework program. It is aimed to develop e-VLBI services for the European VLBI Network (EVN), which can also support the IVS observations (VLBI2010). Within this project, the TUM focuses on developments of an operational remote control system (e-RemoteCtrl) with authentication and authorization. It includes an appropriate role management with different remote access states for future observation strategies. To allow a flexible control of different systems in parallel, sophisticated graphical user interfaces are designed and realized. The software is currently under test in the new AuScope network, Australia / New Zealand. Additional system parameters and information are collected with a new system monitoring (SysMon) for a higher degree of automation, which is currently under preparation for standardization within the IVS Monitoring and Control Interface (MCI) Collaboration Group. The whole system for monitoring and control is fully compatible to the NASA Field System and extends it.