Distributed e-lab setup based on the Raspberry Pi: the hydrostatic experiment case study

e-lab is a remote laboratory which provides the control of real physics experiments over the internet. The robustness of the laboratory framework has allowed the implementation of new experiments outside the main physical laboratory, for instance in high schools and science centres. To reduce costs and the number of maintenance interventions, a new and simple hardware platform to access and control the remote experiment, including video encoding and streaming was developed over the Raspberry Pi computer. Such hardware platform and network implementations are presented in this paper as a case study of a new hydrostatic e-lab experiment. The solution has been benchmarked against previous hardware configurations and proved to be adequate for the given purpose.