Facilitating the programming of the smart home

Author

Jahnke, Jens H. ; D´entremont, Marc ; Stier, Jochen

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Victoria Univ., BC, Canada

Volume

9

Issue

6

fYear

2002

Firstpage

70

Lastpage

76

Abstract

The ongoing miniaturization and cost reduction in electronic hardware has created opportunity for equipping homes with inexpensive smart devices for controlling and automating various tasks in our daily lives. Networking technology and standards have an important role in driving this development. We discuss how technological progress in the areas of visual programming languages, component software, and connection-based programming can be applied to programming the smart home. As an example of an industrial prototype solution, we present microCommander, a visual tool for rapidly programming synergetic devices for the smart home.

Keywords

home automation; home computing; intelligent sensors; software engineering; visual programming; component software; connection-based programming; cost reduction; electronic hardware miniaturization; home automation; industrial prototype; microCommander; networking standards; networking technology; smart devices; smart home programming; visual programming languages; visual tool; Application software; Computer languages; Home automation; Logic programming; Programming profession; Smart homes; Software engineering; Software maintenance; Software systems; User interfaces;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Wireless Communications, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1536-1284

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MWC.2002.1160084

Filename

1160084