Samenvatting

ICT Automatisering is a Dutch company. The main expertises of ICT are portal & application development, embedded software development, and industrial automation. The company aims to have the leading-edge technology to ensure its competitiveness, which can be seen in this graduation project. The project has two popular software elements: domotica and cross platform mobile frameworks.
At present, domotica is widely used especially at home and in hospitals. It brings the convenience of controlling your house from anywhere. ICT also developed an Android prototype to control the lights in a dollhouse (a simulated house with lights). Due to the large amount of the mobile platforms in the mobile market, ICT would like to create a new domotica application that can be used on different mobile platforms.
It is quite difficult to directly choose one framework to develop the domotica app. In this case, the intern firstly found nine potential frameworks through the internet. These are PhoneGap, Appcelerator Titanium, Xamarin, Rhodes, AppMobi, MoSync SDK, Rhodes, AirPlay SDK, Corona, and the combination of Xamarin + MonoCross. Then he got the requirements from the client and summarised them into 12 criteria. Based on these criteria, nine frameworks were analysed by scoring each of the criteria. After all frameworks were scored, he selected PhoneGap, Appcelerator Titanium and MoSync to create a few test applications to test their features. In the end, MoSync was selected for the company’s further use, and Appcelerator Titanium was selected for the domotica application development.
The intern had a meeting again with the client to collect the domotica application requirements. After the meeting, the user requirements document was made. Then the design document was created based on the client’s requirements. After having the design document confirmed with the client, the test plan was made. By the time this report is finished, the domotica application has finished the first increment and half of the second increment. Right now, the domotica application supports some basic functions such as turning on/off a light, changing light colour and intensity, and editing the server connection. Overall, although there were some issues with the layout of the application, Titanium is still quite a useful framework and made the domotica application development easier.