DReTS: A Distributed Real-Time Tele-operation System

It is not easy to design and implement real-time models in uncontrolled distributed environments and to support well-defined interfaces from real-time systems to external systems. We introduce a distributed real-time system, integrated with tele-operation technology able to collect and process data (location information, image information and information about equipment in remote places) generated from remotely distributed construction sites in real time and operate equipment related to the sites from a long distance away. The main purpose of this paper is to study how to support real-time applications, to design distributed real-time processing techniques for real industrial applications, and to implement and develop a TMO-based distributed real-time tele-operation system (DReTS) Model with less strict real-time constraints in ubiquitous environments.