The VISIR (Virtual Instrument Systems inReality) Open Lab Platform is an architecture that enableuniversities, secondary schools, and other organizations to openinstructional laboratories for remote access with preservedcontext. VISIR emanates from a feasibility study made in 1999 atBTH (Blekinge Institute of Technology) in Sweden. Today,VISIR laboratories are online at seven universities globally wherethousands of students can work and conduct most experimentsthat can be performed on a solderless breadboard remotelywithout any risk of being harmed. IAOE (InternationalAssociation of Online Engineering has organized SIG VISIR aSpecial Interest Group for VISIR. Further development of theplatform is carried out in this Community. This paper is aboutwork in progress especially at BTH.