Remote laboratories provide access to hardware devices through the Internet 24 hours a day, becoming a valuable educational tool. This paper focuses on the design and development of a remote laboratory that illustrates the control of electrical machines. There are very good tools available for building remote laboratories. However, most of them require that the instructors have to be skilled in IT. In this paper a very straightforward procedure has been followed to create a simple but powerful laboratory over which students may perform different experiments with an electrical machine.
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