A Graphical Modeling Language for Home Automation

Home automation systems have emerged as one of the most attractive fields in engineering, thanks to the burgeoning demand from society for information systems. Today, the development of these systems is confined to the immediate context of the solution and is platform-dependent. This has intensified the need for suitable tools to tackle their development while enhancing quality and productivity. On one hand, domain specific languages allow the description of the system by means of graphic models easily and intuitively, using domain concepts. On the other hand, the model driven development approach stands out as a good option for solving the problems of the existing methods, as well as contributing tools that pioneer the development of domain specific languages. The present article proposes an alternative methodology and tools for the development of home automation applications following the model driven approach together with the use of a domain specific language.