Remote control and monitoring system for the TACTIC gamma-ray telescope

A platform independent web based system is being developed for the remote control and monitoring of the TACTIC gamma-ray telescope through virtual instrumentation console. On the bottom layer of the two layered system the existing QNX based telescope data acquisition and control system has been linked to WinNT based web server using TCP/IP socket programming and on the top layer a java client-server application has been developed using servlet communication to provide an elaborate user interface through standard inter net browser. The paper describes the design and implementation status of the system. (author)