A Remotely Configurable Hardware/Software Architecture for a Distance IoT Lab

The SARS-COV-2 imposed dramatically changes in our lives, habits, lifestyles, relationships, jobs. A strategic sector heavily affected by the pandemic is the education one. Although several distance learning initiatives supported the training courses activities, practical sessions have been greatly penalized. In this paper, a solution to remotely perform experiments on an IoT device, namely an Arduino Uno R3 board, is proposed. The novelty of our approach is to remotely allow not only the software deployment over a specific hardware configuration, but also to set the hardware configuration of the IoT device.