Model-Driven Design Approach for Building Smart Grid Applications

Software applications are built to run on different devices with dissimilar platforms. The traditional software development process allows to build applications that run on a specific platform in which the development cycle becomes time-consuming and costly due to rebuilding the application for individual platform. To solve this problem, we propose a model-driven methodology for the development of a data visualization application targeting multiple platforms such as desktop computers, tablets and smart phones. The methodology flows from a Platform-Independent Model (PIM) to a Platform-Specific Model (PSM) and ends by executable models for multiple platform. The methodology paves the way to build an automatic synthesis tool that relieves the software developers from the repetitive work. The methodology is validated through a case study that visualizes data from smart grid domain. The case study is built in collaboration with the European research project SmartHG.