Gonio_phi is a device that the scientists need interact with in order to perform their experiments. The device requires no safety precautions.
Through Blu-Ice, the device is given 'Outside Open Hutch' permissions for both 'staff' and 'scientists' as shown in Table 3.
Table 4 shows the capabilities that a user has while issuing commands to this 'gonio_phi' device.
| Permission | Scientist | Staff |
| Outside Closed Hutch | YES | YES |
| Inside Open Hutch | YES | YES |
| Outside Open Hutch Local | YES | YES |
| Outside Open Hutch Remote | YES | YES |
| Passively Accessible. | NO | NO |
| In-Hutch | Local Console | Remote Console | |
| Local Scientist | YES | YES | NO |
| Roaming Scientist | YES | YES | YES |
| Local Staff | YES | YES | NO |
| Roaming Staff | YES | YES | YES |