A short message service for campus wide information delivery

This paper is about software development that is based on short messaging service (SMS) system for delivering messages to students. The students' information is held on a database that can be accessed through graphical user interface (GUI). This software allows the lecturer to maintain a list of students with their respective mobile phone numbers and send message to them. The messages and thus the information must be able to be updated, edited, added or removed. Since this project is using Simplewire's wireless text-messaging platform, the message will be sent to the Simplewire's Wireless Messaging Platform (WMP) and then to the respective mobile phone. Simplewire acts as a gateway between the Internet and mobile device i.e. respective Network Operator, e.g. Celcom, Maxis, TMTouch, Digi and Time Cell. The software is developed using Visual Basic 6.0 with query based on the Structured Query Language (SQL) and ActiveX Data Object 2.0 Library (ADO). The database is held on Microsoft Access 97. The interface between Simplewire's Wireless Message Protocol servers and an External Messaging Entity is developed using Simplewire/sup TM/ ActiveX SMS Software Development Kit (SDK) 2.4.2 for Visual Basic.