Control infrastructure

A method comprising using at least one hardware processor on a gateway device that is communicatively connected to one or more physical devices to:

• receive a script from a platform over at least one network;
• automatically compile the received script into a virtual-machine program;
• and,
• in response to an activation command for the script,
• load the virtual-machine program into a virtual machine,
• by the virtual machine, execute the virtual-machine program, wherein execution of the virtual-machine program comprises one or more references to device properties,
• in response to one or more of the references to device properties during execution of the virtual-machine program, automatically map at least one device property referenced during execution of the virtual-machine program to a device property used by at least one driver stored on the gateway device, and,
• by the at least one driver, communicate with at least one of the one or more physical devices using a communication protocol to read, write, or read and write an actual property, of the at least one physical device, corresponding to the device property used by the at least one driver.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon, wherein the instructions, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:

• receive a script from a platform over at least one network;
• automatically compile the received script into a virtual-machine program;
• and,
• in response to an activation command for the script,
• load the virtual-machine program into a virtual machine,
• by the virtual machine, execute the virtual-machine program, wherein execution of the virtual-machine program comprises one or more references to device properties,
• in response to one or more of the references to device properties during execution of the virtual-machine program, automatically map at least one device property referenced during execution of the virtual-machine program to a device property used by at least one driver stored on the gateway device, and,
• by the at least one driver, communicate with at least one of the one or more physical devices using a communication protocol to read, write, or read and write an actual property, of the at least one physical device, corresponding to the device property used by the at least one driver.