Dedicated Programming Language for Small Distributed Control Devices

Small control computers are more and more used in modern households. These computers are for instance in washing machines, heating systems, secure systems, televisions and stereos. In the future all these computers will communicate with each other to implement the intelligent house. This can only become a reality if each of these controlling computers can be configured to perform a cooperative task. This again requires the necessary communicating facilities. In other words this requires that all these simple and distributed computers can be programmed in a simple and hardware independent way. This paper describes a new, flexible and simple language for programming distributed control tasks. The compiler for this language generates a target code that is very easy to interpret. An interpreter, that can be easy ported to different hardwares, is described. The new language is simple and easy to learn, but, on the other hand, it is general enough to be used in a large group of house control systems.