Re: Re:Home control center using wireless phones

["Neil F" <automated@xxxxxxx>]

I suggest you look at homeseer too (www.homeseer.com) ...Homeseer /
Homeseer
Phone also allows you to trigger events via DTMF

Neil

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Harrison" <Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 1:41 PM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Re:Home control center using wireless phones


> Hi "no name" :-)
>
> All this sounds perfectly possible. Suggest you look at the
"homeseer"
> product review on Mark McCall's site
>
> http:\\www.automatedhome.co.uk
>
> Homeseer can send email messages based on certain events, so it can
send
> them to an email->SMS gateway. The el cheapo option is to use a
free
> gateway, or for money you could invest in a
"corporate-style" one.
>
> Several products, such as winivr (also reviewed on Mark's site) could
> provide the DTMF control piece.
>
> Alternatively, there are already homes out there that are controlled
via
> web sites, and even a few that are controlled through WAP.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark Harrison
> Head of Systems, eKingfisher
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 9843655@xxxxxxx [mailto:9843655@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 7 November 2001 13:06
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Re:Home control center using wireless phones
>
>
> I'm a final year student and i'm doing my final year project on a
> home control center, using wireless phones and there DTMF buttons. i
> was just wondering if anyone could help me with this project, i.e
> good websites, books to read up on, etc. here is the outline of my
> project
>
>
> the objective is to develop a Mobile Home Control Center through
> which a
> user possessing a mobile phone to be able to receive real-time
> information
> about the status of the home appliances (e.g. Heat On, Tap Running,
> Fridge
> Open etc.), to be able to control the state of some of these
> appliances and
> to be able to receive information based on requests posted to a Home
> Inventory Database (e.g. I forgot what I need to buy, tell me please
> what
> product's stock is at a critical level)
>
> The major implementation details of the project will consist in a
> hardware
> part that will collect all the inputs through sensors and a software
> part
> that will interpret the collected signals and decides whether to
> activate or
> not the alarm status of the system, this consisting in composing a
> status
> message (voice or SMS) that will be sent to the appropriate mobile
> phone. On
> the other hand the user will have the possibility to call up the
> system and
> through a menu system to request information on the status of
> different
> appliances or to control (on/off, up/down) the status of them or to
> run
> different predefined queries on the inventory database
>
>
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