RE: Re:Home control center using wireless phones

["Mark Harrison" <Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx>]

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


For more information: http://www.automatedhome.co.uk
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