We have developed PC-based remote control and surveillance systems that utilize the LabVIEW-based virtual instrument (VI) technology, the Internet and a cellular phone. The main VIs we have developed are “Remote Control VI for a Mobile Robot and a Robot Arm” and “Remote Surveillance and Warning VI”. In these VIs we devised a control system of mouse-clicking on camera images mounted on a remote browser. With this control system mis-operations of the VIs caused by the delay of image-communication between two remote sites can be eliminated
