PolyU launches first real-time remote laboratory in Asia

PolyU and the secondary school users recently shared the benefits of the "Borderless Lab 365", developed and launched by PolyU in 2019 and is also the first real-time remote laboratory in Asia. The Lab allows both university and secondary students to perform experiments remotely anywhere and anytime.

Dr Mak Chee-leung, Associate Professor of the Department of Applied Physics, said after logging in, students can control remotely the equipment in PolyU's laboratory and adjust the parameters themselves to perform experiments and collect data for scientific analysis.

With over HK$5 million funded by the Quality Education Fund, the platform has benefitted more than 350 secondary students from about 20 secondary schools. Over 350 PolyU students have used the platform as well.

Six experiments are available currently in the platform. Dr Mak said they are targeting at increasing the number of experiments to 15 by the end of this year, and planning to cover more subjects and other elements like virtual reality.