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Historically, experiments were carried out by scientists physically present on the instrument where their sample was being measured. Recent socio-economic changes have increased the need for tools and mechanisms providing remote secured access to control the instruments and to access the generated scientific data.
Amongst those tools, a real time visualization of the instrument, including all its moving parts, plays an important role because it allows scientists to have a better vision of their experiment and to anticipate any potential problematic situation.
At the Institute Laue Langevin we have developed RICA (Remote Instrument Camera Access) whose aim is to provide a real-time secured remote video access to the instruments. RICA provides a mechanism allowing only authenticated and authorized users to access video streams remotely via their browsers. Access-control linked to the experiment schedules of the ILL and the Nomad instrument control software ensures that only team members of an active experiment can access the video streams.
This article describes the technical challenges to convert in real-time a standard internet-enabled camera stream (Real Time Streaming Protocol) into one that can be sent via the web to a browser. A detailed description of the project architecture will be provided as well as a view of the containerization and continuous integration techniques used for the deployment of the application.
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