These regions, however, tend to also have limited access to air travel, thus increasing the customer's training expenses. Remote training would remove these expenses entirely. Remote Monitoring and Control Many companies maintain off-site facilities requiring personnel that travel back and forth to monitor the remote location's status. Efforts to collect data such as temperatures, pressures, and levels or to perform visual inspections should not consume this many resources. Instead, they should be replaced with systems that can collect data automatically and report them back to the user via the Internet or a company's intranet.
Information can pass the other way too.
The same equipment that is used to collect data can control processes. Intermation has developed software to control equipment as simple as switches and stepper motors and as complex as precision instrumentation on a GPIB interface. Industrial Automation Consider a manufacturing company that requires a large, expensive piece of test equipment to support their processes. Since they do not need the equipment regularly, they would like to reduce the expense associated with its use by allowing other companies access to this resource. If remote users could control the equipment over the Internet, a sample could be sent by mail to the manufacturing company where it could then be analyzed remotely.