EPICS

From RTEMSWiki

EPICS is an acronym for Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System. It is a set of software tools and applications which provide a software infrastructure for use in building distributed control systems to operate devices such as Particle Accelerators, Large Physics Experiment Detectors, Lasers, and major Telescopes. Such distributed control systems typically comprise tens or even hundreds of computers, networked together to allow communication between them and to provide control and feedback of the various parts of the device from a central control room, or even remotely over the internet.

EPICS has been used as the foundation for a variety of custom physics and scientific control systems.

EPICS is a world-wide collaboration. It is open source.