Generating consistent universal controllers for Web-Service-enabled appliances

Today, an increasing number of home and office appliances that we interact with contain embedded Web Servers. Making available Web Services for remote access to their functionality is just a small step. In this paper, we present a multi-platform, model-based generation approach enabling efficient and low-cost development of interactive applications for accessing Web-Service-enabled appliances. The results are not stand-alone, monolithic elements of software but are capable of being integrated into a consistent host application ad-hoc during runtime. Thus, a heterogeneous and dynamic infrastructure of appliances from different manufacturers can be accessed via single control applications. The approach has been proven to be applicable for generating interactive applications for various target platforms including mobile devices.