The LABOTRIX SENSE PHY L5 digital laboratory is a physics student kit for one workstation, intended for classroom experiments, practical lessons and student research projects: the study of mechanical motion and force, electric circuits, thermal phenomena and the change of gas pressure in a sealed vessel. It is used in physics lessons and elective classes in middle and high school. Demonstration experiments in front of the whole class and tasks of increased difficulty are run by the teacher with the teacher’s own laboratory kit. The laboratory combines hardware, multimedia content and elements of generative artificial intelligence, which makes lessons inclusive and engaging for students of different levels of preparation: work with the platform develops attention, logical and visual thinking, creative ability and cooperation skills, and students carry out the tasks individually or in groups.
The kit contains seven wireless instruments of six types. The photogate sensor is supplied in two units and has a resolution of 0.1 ms within a time range of 0-10 s; the force sensor has a resolution of 0.01 N within a range from -50 N to +50 N; the voltage sensor has a resolution of 0.01 V within a range from -25 V to +25 V; the current sensor has a resolution of 0.01 A within a range from -3 A to +3 A; the temperature sensor has a resolution of 0.01 °C within a range from -50 °C to +200 °C; and the gas pressure sensor has a resolution of 0.1 kPa within a range of 0-700 kPa. Every sensor carries a colour liquid crystal display with a 1.8 inch diagonal and shows the measurement result on its own body at the moment the reading is taken. The sensors operate autonomously, without a datalogger or an external analogue-to-digital converter, and run on built-in rechargeable batteries recharged by the separate charger supplied with the kit, which takes four sensors at a time. Several sensors transmit measured values simultaneously to a computer, a mobile device or a cloud service over a wireless Bluetooth connection, and a wired USB connection is also supported; the software displays the data as tables and graphs and exports the results to spreadsheet editors. The software interface is Ukrainian by default with English available as an option, and it is compatible with Windows and macOS. The kit is operated in school premises at an air temperature from +5 °C to +40 °C and a relative humidity from 40 % to 60 % without condensation; the service life is 5 years and the warranty period is 12 months.
The set includes wireless photogate sensors – 2 pcs, a wireless force sensor, a wireless voltage sensor, a wireless current sensor, a wireless temperature sensor, a wireless gas pressure sensor, a charger for the sensors, a box with a foam insert for the sensors, a licence granting access to the online course with the language model assistant, a USB cable for a wired connection between a sensor and a computer, software supplied as a download link, an operating manual with methodological materials for the experiments issued separately for the teacher and for the student, a passport with a warranty card, and individual transport packaging. Stands, clamps and other fixtures for mounting the sensors during an experiment are not part of the kit and are provided by the physics classroom; charge the sensor batteries fully before first use.
Together with the product the school receives the right of access to an online teaching support course hosted in a learning management system and designed for 70 academic hours of lessons, compiled for the current curricula of general secondary education institutions of Ukraine. The material is grouped into research modules in physics, biology, chemistry and STEM, and every topic contains a lesson plan, a list of the equipment required, a scenario for running the experiment, a step by step instruction for the laboratory work with an explanation of the expected result, a video demonstration of working techniques, and interactive exercises and tasks for independent study and for project activity, suitable both for individual and for group work. All modules are written for this same equipment and have been tested on it, so the course follows a direct chain from equipment to method to learning results.
The kit includes an AI assistant built into the learning management system on retrieval-augmented generation. It selects research tasks and experiments matching the topic of the lesson, describes the procedure of the experiment step by step, identifies typical student errors and gives personalised recommendations for correcting them, adapts task difficulty to different levels of student preparation, supports students in compiling reports on research results and in structuring the conclusions drawn from experiments, and works on a localised knowledge base aligned with the national curriculum of Ukraine. The licence for the course and the software is valid for 12 months; content, interface and learning materials are in Ukrainian. The course content and the assistant’s answers are provided in Ukrainian, while the interface of the learning platform is multilingual: the Ukrainian localisation is enabled by default and an English interface is available as an option. The sensors of the kit send measurement results to the electronic platform automatically, so the student does not copy readings from the display or enter numbers by hand, and the built-in artificial intelligence agent works with that data set: it builds graphs and tables, processes the results obtained, shows the regularities that appeared during the experiment, compares the measured values with the reference values provided for that laboratory work, and leads the student towards formulating a hypothesis, a conclusion and an interpretation within a defined “knowledge corridor”, narrowing the search to the right direction instead of supplying a ready answer. This makes full-scale digital research possible without any manual entry of data.
The product is intended for educational work in general secondary education institutions and is used only under the control and supervision of a teaching member of staff; the recommended age of students is from 10 years, that is grade 5 and above. The teacher connects the experimental rig and gives the safety briefing, and students work under supervision. The voltage sensor is meant for low voltage teaching circuits and is not connected to the AC mains, and the measuring limits of the voltage sensor (25 V), the current sensor (3 A), the force sensor (50 N) and the gas pressure sensor (700 kPa) must not be exceeded. The photogate sensors and the force sensor are fixed on a stable stand before measurement begins. Sensors and the charger are not immersed in water, disassembled, dropped or squeezed, and the sensors are charged only with the charger supplied. Sensor surfaces and connectors are wiped with a dry or slightly damp soft cloth, without solvents, abrasives or alcohol. The kit is stored in a dry closed room at a temperature from +5 °C to +40 °C and a relative humidity of 80 % without condensation, with the sensors fixed in the sockets of the foam insert.
