There are no special staffing requirements. Once the device is in place, no further staffing of the lab is required. The system is nearly as flexible as the instrumentation itself. This means that no new programming is required whenever a different device or measurement routine is required. There are no safety concerns.
Students work from the safety of their homes or institutional computer clusters.
No safety training is required to use the system. Scarce instrumentation and lab space can be effectively used by many students. The system queues requests and executes them in real time. Under most circumstances, students have the feeling of owning in exclusivity the entire measurement setup. Training is moderate since students need only learn those instrument functions that have been programmed in the software interface.