SMS Based Emerging Techniques for Monitoring and Controlling Android Mobiles
Deepak Kumar, Mohammed A. Qadeer · International Journal of Engineering and Technology · 2012
This paper describes a software application for android mobile platform that discovers various excited applications of SMSs over its traditional text messaging application. It shows how various features in android mobiles can be automated by SMS. By this application user can perform various operations in its mobile even if mobile is very far from him , like by sending a single text message we can fetch and store our contact numbers, fetch our device's location, auto respond to the incoming messages, send SMS from our remote mobile, fetching SIM and mobile details used for GSM network. Convenience to the user, security and efficiency are main issues that are considered. This application makes the use of services like telephony, location based services (LBS) and native android applications. Index Terms—Android, LBS, new SMS applications, telephony. I. I NTRODUCTION SMS is very common and widely used way of communication. Now-a-days we do most of the communication with SMSs. Today in the era of technology we want most of the things to be automated. Imagine that it would be great if we could perform various functions in our mobile phones even if it is far from us or it could respond automatically like an intelligent device. So now this can be achieved by our SMS software application which is developed for android mobile platform. By using this application we can operate many functions via sending a SMS to the mobile phone which is far from us without interception of operator and in this way our android mobile phone will act as intelligent device. This application establish client-server relationship between mobile phones in which the mobile requesting operations by sending SMS will act as client and mobile serving those operations will act as server. Various operations that can be performed by this application are listed as storing and fetching contact numbers, fetching the device's location, sending SMS to other mobile phones through our remote mobile, auto responding to the incoming messages, finding and fetch the details about SIM and mobile like and we can also switch off our mobile via sending a SMS to it. This application makes the use of both traditional and advance technology like telephony and location based services (LBS). These services are also used in various applications but we are presenting them in very different way from there conventional use. There are some issues that have