Welcome to Instin’s documentation!

Instin is a wireless instrumentation control system based on gateways, which are in charge of receive the instrumentation commands from the host computer, send them to the instruments and reply the requested information (if any) to the host. This webpage contains the installation of the system and the description of each function of instin.py, the Python package that enables the use of this wireless system from Python. It is based on the PyVISA and socket Python packages.

For a complete description of this system you can read the following publications:

• 4. Enériz, N. Medrano and B. Calvo, “Live Demonstration: A Low-Cost Wireless Instrumentation Control System,” 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Sevilla, 2020, pp. 1-1, doi: 10.1109/ISCAS45731.2020.9180681.

• 4. Enériz, N. Medrano, B. Calvo and J. Pérez-Bailón, “A Wireless Instrumentation Control System Based on Low-Cost Single Board Computers,” 2020 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC), Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2020, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/I2MTC43012.2020.9129142.

If you find these useful, please consider their citation.

Additionally, all the code is available on Github.

Table of contents

• Installation
  • Previous requirements
  • Gateway configuration
  • Host PC configuration
• Instin functions reference