X. Workshop on Resistive Plate Chambers and Related Detectors

The Control and Monitoring System designed for the Front-End Electronics of the HADES RPC detector, installed at GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH (Darmstadt, Germany), is described. The slow control system controls/monitors about 6500 variables and is being implemented using the Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS) Software tool kit. A MEDM graphical interface is being developed for the client system. The Control and Monitoring System attends four different systems: Front-End Electronics, Low Voltage System, Detector and Gas System. Each system communicates the control/monitoring system via an independent hardware interface, and a common software platform.