Labview is one of best softwares that are used for automation.LabVIEW is commonly used for data acquisition, instrument control, and industrial automation on a variety of platforms including Microsoft Windows, various versions of UNIX, Linux, and Mac OS X.
LabVIEW ties the creation of user interfaces (called front panels) into the development cycle. LabVIEW programs/subroutines are called virtual instruments (VIs). Each VI has three components: a block diagram, a front panel and a connector panel.
You all are aware of front panel,In front panel there are lot of buttons and shapes.All of these buttons shape can be changed by you programmers using this feature you can make your own buttons easily of your images.
I have image of Computer LAB of my university using labview i can control each bulb,projector,computers,AC etc by clicking on image i.e when i click on bulb in image,bulb turns on in reality .By clicking computer turns on computer in real
Same image in labview
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