Switch off your devices via SMS - from anywhere

How often do you leave your ACs and other gadgets switch on and realise only after going out. You either rush back if you have time or if you are close enough from home or helplessly you leave it running. Don’t you?

Well, here is a device that is designed especially for the likes you, who can't help forgetting. Just send an SMS and the device would do the rest.

Khaleej Times reported that a group of Emirati students at the Applied Technology High School — Abu Dhabi campus has invented a device to be set at home to control the household electronics and gadgets from anywhere in the world via SMS. The project was the first among the three winners of a grand contest launched by the school, themed ‘Made by Emirati Hands’ during which the students handed in 40 scientific discoveries.

The other winning inventions include a new mechanism through which the solar power can be transformed to electric power and an application operated by phone which enables parents to track the behavioural and academic progress of their kids throughout the academic year, without a visit to the school or the college.

The winners were announced at a ceremony attended by Dr Abdullatif Al Shamsi, Director General of the Institute of Applied Technology ( IAT).

The automated remote control of home appliances from anywhere in the globe by sending SMS to a device installed at home was invented by Applied Engineering students, Saeed Salim Al Zayded, Khalid Abdul Qader Al Jabri and Mohammed Ali Al Bureiqi, who won the first prize in the competition.

Kenneth Kad, Manager of Applied Technology High Schools said that the system, is equipped with a GSM device which receives SMS sent via a mobile phone, then a programme created within the system reads the SMS, decodes it and sends electric signals to the target household machine to start turning it on/off such as the electric gate or any other machine run by power.

The other students whose projects won prizes are Ahmed Salim Al Sadi, Edrous Saleh Al Hashimi and Ahmed Obaid Al Abri for the automated answer machine at schools and universities. This creation makes a communication channel between parents and their wards’ schools and universities. Parents can call this system by phone to obtain the required information about their kids’ conducts, level of academic achievement, their marks and other info and comments made by their teaching staff. That shall enable parents to follow up the performance of their children with no need to approach the school.

The third winning project was submitted by Mansour Hamad Al Manie, Khalid Ibrahim Al Za’abi and Nassir Abdullah Al Saadi on transforming solar power to electric power.

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