The rational use of electric energy is a subject much discussed at present. A major concern is with the Brazilian industrial sector, which is responsible for most of the consumption of such energy, due to the use of motor systems. Allied to this fact, the lack of an appropriate approach to teaching energy efficiency and energy conservation in many Engineering courses in Brazilian universities, contributes to the increase in electricity waste. In this sense, this work presents a remote laboratory aimed at testing the energy efficiency in a system driving water pumping. For this, we developed a software to monitor and trigger the prototype water pumping LAMOTRIZ belonging to the Federal University of Pará. Still, we designed a pilot trial to test the remote experimentation with undergraduate and postgraduate students of that University and conducted an evaluation of this trial by those students.
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