SMS to stop Truant
Using SMS to stop kids skipping school
Kids who play hooky in Singapore had better
watch out: A school there has set up a mobile
phone service that uses a short-messaging
service (SMS) to take roll, Wired News
reports. The system then marks the names of
absent students in an electronic database and
notifies parents via a short text message sent to
their mobile phones. The SMS alert system,
which costs about $5,000, is used to save
administrators time, the school said -- not to "cause stress to the students. Source of Quote
To develop this, you'll need the SMS JDK:
Short Message Service Java Developers Kit
A necessary building block for
developing Short Message Service (SMS) value added services and solutions,
the SMS JDK provides an interface to a Short Message Service Centre (SMSC)
through Java.
The SMS JDK is ETSI GSM 03.39 compliant. It also includes additional
extensions (SMPP 3.3, SMPPP 1.1) to provision customers and distribution lists
on a Short Message Service Centre (SMSC) as well as multiple-recipient short
messaging functionality.
The SMS JDK is 100% pure Java, so SMS value added service applications
developed using this interface will be platform independent and ready to run
on a corporate LAN/Intranet. The SMS-JDK is also Internet ready, so SMS
services and solutions can now be offered to a large end-user base.
There is a site dedicated to this Noctor. Visit this site for further information. The toolkit can be downloaded
locally.
Task
Develop a system that will allow ordinary phones (with SMS inbuilt) to implement the above system.
This is an extremely topical area.
Read the literature surrounding this area of networking (sms, gprs etc)....
The end-result should be a thesis outlining your approach, results, discussion of system and evaluation.
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