SMS Innovation and the Smart Home
SMS is a technology that has been around for years and has been mainly used as a communication device. But now that many individuals are purchasing smart phones, many companies are starting to adapt their business around the idea that SMS is an effective tool that can be used for more than texting.
Telecommunication Systems Inc. recently announced the delivery of an expanded Short Message Service Center (SMSC) which would triple their capacity to an existing Asian-Pacific market. This new expansion can be very beneficial for companies that need to communicate proficiently overseas as well as assure that the amount of messages being sent out are getting to their destination and are getting there in a timely manner. Another company that is working in the SMS industry is Gemini Mobile Technologies.
The company has shown much success in this industry and partly because of their hyper scale-messaging center. The way that the hyper scale system works is that a carrier can send an emergency message to millions of its users within 20 minutes. For example, if a sports website or a sports television station such as ESPN is broadcasting a game and is using the service, they can conveniently send out basketball and baseball scores to key subscribers every 10 minutes, or leverage multimedia messaging services (MMS) to enable millions of users to simultaneously vote for the outcome of a TV broadcast or a trivia answer that was shown during the broadcast. Its an amazing technology that can attract many consumers as well as companies to use the service.
Another way that the SMS technology can be very beneficial and attractive to consumers is through the ability to communicate outside your home directly to your domestic appliances. An example of how this works is described in a great article on cnn.com entitled "'Smart' homes not far away".
Basically how the technology works is that if you are away from your home, you have the ability to communicate directly to your house through your phone any message that you want. For example, if you want to tell your kids to do their homework and even see what your kids are doing, you can send a text message to your house address that is programmed to tell your kids to do their homework as well as obtaining sent pictures in your house to see what your kids are doing. This can also be very beneficial to monitor the security of your home when you are maybe on vacation or simply away from your house. Another cool feature of how this smart house technology works in relation to SMS is that you can program your phone to let your house know when you want to turn things both on and off. For example, if you are driving up to your winter holiday house that’s in the mountains, you can text message your house to turn on the heater so that by the time that you arrive to your house, the place is already nice and warm for you to enjoy.
Overall, SMS is a new and emerging technology that many companies are starting to adapt into their business strategy as a way of efficiently communicating with their clients as well as their own employees. As technology continues to advance, such as the idea of the smart home, SMS will continue to expand and evolve into more effective ways of communicating in particular services.
