Do you know that you can use your hand phone to control most of electrical appliances remotely via SMS concept? Appliances like garage door or gate, room air-conditioner/heater, CCTV camera, lamps
or garden's watering system and so on are among them. There are huge examples to name it. Some people use it for industrial application such as Remote DATA Logging (Data Collection)
All these are mainly depended on the SMS (Short Messages System) technology coupled with some simple eclectronic circuit (very simple design) application. Though this article may focus to the electrical or electronics enthusiast, with the details and step by step explanation is thoroughly discussed, most people can afford to do it!
Here I will name some of its categories of applications:
1. Hobbyist
As a hobbyist, ones can control any appliances as they like just
using a simple construction, just name it!.
2. For students projects (university/college and/or secondary/high
school).
There are numbers of students looking for this similar project,
probably for their final project presentation. This simple step
by step explanation would be a reference project for them!
3. For Industrial applications such as:
- Remotely controlled pumps, motors and other electrical
appliances
- Remote Data Logging collection such as Rate of rain falls,
changes of temperatures of certain remote area.
4. Home Based Applications
Other than able to control and monitor various domestic appliances, this will also include the
modern of arts of Security system, when you can arm or disarm your home security alarm system
remotely via SMS Controller.
Currently, there are some brand new vehicles fitted with
this "SMS Controller" system which acts as alarm and security
system, but these features were normally combined with GPS
(Global Positioning System) to keep tracking the burglary's
acticity remotely
5. Company, Organizations or Fleet Owner Management.
This seems like to be a perfect solution for a company or
organization to keep tracking of the staff behaviour
particularly when dealing with transportation and mileage
issues. This concept is also a combined funtion between the SMS
Controller function and the GPS system. The SMS and GPS system
will always working together in monitoring the driving styles or
behavior of each driver.
The other extra feature of this SMS CONTROLLER is; when the appliance that we are controlling remotely via hand phone has been activated or deactivated, we can receive a message confirming the action that has just taken place done by SMS. The message we are receiving is depend on "pre-setup" TEXT during the programming of the microcontroller.
In all the categories shown above, I like to stress that it always begin with the SMS Controller.
So, by knowing how the SMS Controller works, it will be much easier to understand of how to develope the application when associating with SMS/GPS functions.
For more details of how to learn building or constructing the SMS CONTROLLER Works, please visit the http://www.ptistrader.com. All the information described in details step by step guides and the best of all it is FREE!
