Home appliances operable by just an SMS!!

I appreciate the efforts put by students.....But this one is not practically viable. For Home Automation, technology like ZigBee will reinvent the way we live today......It will bring awesome comfort in our lives without affecting our pockets.......

ZigBee

ZigBee protocols are intended for use in embedded applications requiring low data rates and low power consumption. ZigBee's current focus is to define a general-purpose, inexpensive, self-organizing mesh network that can be used for industrial control, embedded sensing, medical data collection, smoke and intruder warning, building automation, home automation, etc. The resulting network will use very small amounts of power — individual devices must have a battery life of at least two years to pass ZigBee certification.

Typical application areas includes

• Home Entertainment and Control — Smart lighting, advanced temperature control, safety and security, movies and music

• Home Awareness — Water sensors, power sensors, energy monitoring, smoke and fire detectors, smart appliances and access sensors

• Mobile Services — m-payment, m-monitoring and control, m-security and access control, m-healthcare and tele-assist

• Commercial Building — Energy monitoring, HVAC, lighting, access control

• Industrial Plant — Process control, asset management, environmental management, energy management, industrial device control

Suggestion is good but implementation of this is not feasible. For an academic project, It can be a good option but for real time electronics it is not good. Most appropriate reason is,  this implementation increase price of equipment will be  too high. Sensor will use in this will have to implemented with mobile network or high level Bluetooth. Currently our electronics goods control by chip set or processors. Migration form chip control to network control is still a challange for techies.

Though the science has shown its contribution in many ways, it cannot do things when we are away(not artificial intelligence).Students have come with a very Innovative idea which needs to be appreciated:) but the technology should not be used to waste resource, when we are already near the house what's their in walking another two steps and doing our own work? technology should be used to reduce the Work load and save time instead not to become lazy!! already we have wasted lots of resources lets use technology to save it at least from now:)

As far as the technology goes, it is very interesting and could lead to many newer ideas later on which might actually be wanted to be implemented. In today's scenario, when I do not even know the time I am going to be reaching home, (thanks t the traffic jams, etc) it does not make sense for me to keep the microwave on. Yes, could be good if the lights in the house could be switched on (could keep thieves away, if you are not at home:)) and such other applications.

A good start that might have a great future......

AGREE WITH YOU SONAL

INNOVATION IS GOOD...UTILIZATION AND NECESSITY FACTOR SHOULD BE EVOLVE BEFORE IMPLEMENTATION OF INNOVATION.

With the Blackberry, you get to keep in touch with you business mail on the go. That itself is sufficient for me. Now I am not the type who would use sms to do all this. Mails is sufficient to engross me and I have virtually stopped smsing!!

Thanks for the referral Sonal :)