Do you know that you can use your mobile 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 depending on the SMS (Short Messages System) technology coupled with some
simple electronics circuit (very simple design) application. Though this article may focus for the
electrical or electronics enthusiast, with the details and step by step explanation which is thoroughly
discussed, most people can afford to do it.
Here I will name some of its category of applications:
1. Hobbyist
As a hobbyist, ones can control any appliances as they like 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 presentation, 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 control pumps, motors and other electrical appliances
- Remote Data Logging collection such as Rate of rain falls,Temperature of certain remote
area.
4. Home Based Applications
Other than able to control 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, more and more cars manufacturers are fitting with this “SMS Controller” systems which acts
as alarm and security system, however these features were normally combined with GPS (Global
Positioning System) which is capable to keep tracking the burglars remotely
5. Company, Organizations or Fleet Owner Management.
The is always a better way for the company to keep tracking staff behavior particularly
dealing with transportation and mileage. This concept is also combined with 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 of programming the controller.
In all the category 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 SMS/GPS works!
The writer has vast knowledges in the field of electronics engineering design and applications particularly when dealing with micro-controller especially AVR family MCU. For more details of how to learn building or constructing the SMS CONTROLLER, please visit http://www.ptistrader.com . All the information described in details with step by step guides and the best of all it is FREE!