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| Abhi New member Username: Abhijitrc Post Number: 1 Registered: 10-2008 |
We are currently using now sms application to send and recive binary messages through SMS. Can we use the same application to communicate with a gprs enabled device to send and recive data over the internet and not through SMS. Or do you have any other application for that | |||
| Des - NowSMS Support Board Administrator Username: Desosms Post Number: 156 Registered: 08-2008 |
Hi Abhi, I'm not sure what to suggest for you. A lot of it depends on how your application works. Does the remote need to both send and receive, or is it send only? There is a way that the remote could post a message in to NowSMS over IP, and NowSMS would treat it the same way as if it was received via SMS. But currently, there is no easy way for NowSMS to send a response back over IP. (We've been thinking about this, but there needs to be an efficient way for NowSMS to handle retries when the remote device is off-line. And a way for the remote device to signal that it is back on-line.) We'd be interested in exploring this more, as there may be some simple adaptations that could be added into NowSMS. Could you tell me more about how your application components currently interact? -- Des NowSMS Support | |||
| Abhi New member Username: Abhijitrc Post Number: 2 Registered: 10-2008 |
Hi Des, Yes the remote device needs to both send and receive binary data. Currently our prototype web application and the device interact by sending and receiving binary SMS through Now SMS gateway software. Regarding the question about handling the retries in regards to our gprs device. The device would send out an powerOn and power off signal to our server so we would know if it is online or offline. So could you guys suggest us some method to do send and receive response over IP.Or any other Alternative to it as we think the SMS thing would have bottle neck problems. | |||
| Abhi New member Username: Abhijitrc Post Number: 3 Registered: 10-2008 |
Hi Des, Can you help on it. | |||
| Des - NowSMS Support Board Administrator Username: Desosms Post Number: 165 Registered: 08-2008 |
Hi Abhi, I wish I had some good ideas for you. Unfortunately, I don't ... other than rolling your own solution. Overall, SMS is pretty quick and reliable, particularly when sender and receiver are on the same mobile network ... and the amount of data that you are exchanging is relatively small. But it is not perfect for every application...particularly if there are larger amounts of data being transferred, or closer to real time data transfer requirements. Your posting here got me thinking, and I've been discussing some ideas with my colleagues, about how we might be able to add some extended functionality into NowSMS to extend our messaging paradigm to have some APIs that could be used for IP-based communication. But it's too early to talk about that. At this point, all that could be done in NowSMS is for a remote to submit a message via IP, and NowSMS would treat it like a regular inbound message. But there is not a good way to route a message back to a remote over IP. -- Des NowSMS Support | |||
