A Programming Language for the Internet of Things

Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) is becoming more integrated with our daily lives for each passing day. Some households are already equipped with smart devices which perform tasks such as monitoring the indoor climate to mowing the lawn. There exists open source frameworks designed for IoT which can be used by hobbyist and professionals for their own projects. However, many of those tools require the user to know programming languages such as C, Python and JavaScript. Users who do not know much programming and who would like to tinker with IoT may find it challenging to work with those tools. In this thesis we'll look at how to design a programming language targeted specifically at IoT. The language is targeted at amateur programmers with the goal to make it easy to program any IoT device. We'll discuss the current limitations of the IoT hardware and how the language should work around them. Finally, we'll look at how to implement an interpreter for this language on a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B.