i-UTP Building Utilities Control using GSM - SMS Services

Telecommunication system is one of the major components in industry. It can be
summarized as the transmission, reception, and processing of information between
two or more locations, using either digital or analogue transmission. The rapidly
growing Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) industry has provided the
need for further studies on its capabilities and producing more useful services. This
project will combine the Short Messaging Service (SMS) with the Peripheral
Interface Controller (PIC) capability to produce another system that will be able to
monitor and control the utilities in a certain building such as the air conditioner,
lamps and doors. This system will make building monitoring and controlling a much
easier task for the maintenance personnel. This system is also equipped with a
security features to ensure that this system will not be misused by other unauthorized
people.
The platform that this project has built offers a wide variety of other new system.
There are several projects that are being conducted using the same platform or
principal as this project which is SMS based system. Among the topics is SMS Car
Parking Payment, SMS Bill Reminder Payment Systems, Machine-to-Machine
(M2M); Mobile-to-machine and Machine-to-mobile, Home Surveillance with Mobile
Phones and Mobile Phone Based Ticketing (transportation, train, parking meters etc).
It is hoped that this system will gives benefits to the community and can be
implemented in real environment in the future.