I was in my office wondering If I put my dishes to wash before I left for work. It was Deja Vu. Every morning I keep thinking the same. What about the house alarm. Is it turned on ? I hope my cooking range is turned off. Talk about anxiety attack.
Right at that moment I got a TEXT message. “dish washer task ended. Time to complete 47 mins”. My diswasher sent me a TEXT message !!! My dish washer communicated with me !! No I am not insane, but just the owner of a new device that I installed on my Dish washer, Cooking Range and Home security unit. It is enabled with a SMS communication unit, to query and also to send commands from my phone !! I send a TEXT message to the Hummingbytes gateway, which authenticates with me and then forwards my commands to the device at my home. The device receives the TEXT message, (which is a encoded byte stream) and then takes action accordingly. I can query my dish washer if it has finished its work OR even start it remotely !! My home security system sends a TEXT once its security is compromised !!!
Since SMS is ubiquitous, a solution around it is an instant success and has wide acceptibility. A SMS based device control unit. It is a pre-programmed unit for controlling devices.
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