The GALS (Globally Asynchronous, Locally Synchronous) paradigm is a prevalent approach to design distributed synchronous subsystems that communicate with each other asynchronously. The design of GALS systems is tedious and error-prone due to the complexity of architectures and high synchronous and asynchronous concurrency involved. This paper proposes a model-based approach to formally verify such systems. Specifications are written in GRL (GALS Representation Language), dedicated to model GALS systems with homogeneous syntax and formal semantics. We present a translation from GRL to LNT, a value-passing process algebra with imperative flavour. The translation is automated by means of the GRL2LNT tool, making possible the analysis of GRL specifications using the CADP toolbox. We illustrate our approach with an access management system for smart parking based on distributed software systems embedded in programmable logic controllers.