Fernandez, Jhan Angelo B.

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Before we came up with an idea of creating a SMS security system we

wanted to get more information why security at home is very important.
According to Greg Hall in his Article entitled Why Home Security Is Important
In This Day And Age, published by New E-zine Articles that these days
thieves are able to just walk in because of the lack of home security. Typically
the thieves that are stealing from you have a home security system and you
don't. Now don't you see something wrong with that? Some 40% of thieves
are able to just walk right into the homes where they intend to rob.
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Home security has been a major issue where crime is increasing and
everybody wants to take proper measures to prevent intrusion. In addition,
there is need to automate home so that the user can take the advantage of
technological advancement. This project presents a model that will provide
security to their home, office or cabin etc. via SMS using GSM technology
keeping in view the rapid growth of wireless communication we are inspired
to work on this project. The idea behind this project is to meet the upcoming
challenges of the modern practical applications of wireless communication
and to facilitate our successors with such splendid ideas that should clear
their concept about wireless communication and control system.

The applications of SMS/GSM Based security system are quite diverse.

There are many real life situations that require control of different devices
remotely and to provide security. There will be instances where a wired
connection between a remote appliance/device and the control unit might
not be feasible due to structural problems. In such cases a wireless
connection is a better option. Basic Idea of our project is to provide GSM
Based security even if the owner is away from the restricted areas. For this
we adopted wireless mode of transmission using GSM. Beside this there are
many methods of wireless communication but we selected GSM in our
project because as compared to other techniques, this is an efficient and
cheap solution also, we are much familiar with GSM technology and it is
easily available.

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Related Literature
Twenty-nine per cent of the universities surveyed by Burke et al. (1996)
agree that the task of scheduling invigilators is a major problem. However,
he adds that some universities have examination schedules that are so wellplanned that they can be reused with only a small alteration (Burke et
al.1996: 7). Burke stresses that the quality of any schedule lies in its
usability and requirements of those who are subject to it (Burke et al.,
1996: 9). This type of system has to be flexible enough to successfully create
schedules that not only allow room for any minor changes to be made to the
master schedule but have also considered all the various constraints.
According to His hammuddin et al. (2004), there are various methodologies
on examination scheduling which include constraint programming, graph
colouring and meta heuristic approaches such as genetic algorithms, tabu
search, simulated annealing, the great deluge algorithm and hybridised
methods. Since the introduction of the fuzzy methodologies into the scene of
scheduling, it has experienced much success especially in maintenance
scheduling (Dahal, Aldridge and McDonald, 1999), manpower allocation,
aircrew roistering (Teodorovic et al.,1998), and driver scheduling (Li and

Kwan, 2003). Hishammuddin and his team of researchers further investigate

a fuzzy expert system that is used simultaneously with the multiple ordering
criteria in trying to give a better representation of the challenges
encountered in examination scheduling. Their study led them to discover
that the exploration of different methodologies to achieve multi-criteria
orderings may be beneficial (Hishammuddin et al., 2004: 13). Burke et al.
(2000) reiterates that various types of constraints which cannot be made
possible using a single objective function can be handled by the multi-criteria
approach. The system in this project utilises the multi-criteria modelling in its
ISS. Burke et al.s (1996) findings further reveal that automated timetabling
packages are capable of reducing greatly the time spent on preparing
examination schedules. This is supported by Jun ginger (1986) who discovers
that using automated systems to prepare school timetables can save as
much as 75 per cent of the time taken to plan the timetable using other nonautomated systems.

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Mobile Campus allows administrators and other qualified and approved groups
on campus to send group SMS (Short Message Service) messages via the one device that
students, faculty and employees carry with them at all times, their cell phones. The
rapidly deployable system, which is provided at no cost or IT burden to universities, is
already being successfully used as an emergency alert system. For example, the
University of Texas, University of Florida, University of Central Florida, Kent State
University, and Clemson University have all used Mobile Campus to notify students of
school closures due to weather emergencies.
Mobile Campus is an excellent communications tool for our emergency
notification system, said Rhonda Weldon, director of communications at the University
of Texas. We know most students carry their cell phones with them and the
simultaneous text message alert has been very effective for sending campus closure

messages. We have integrated Mobile Campus into all of our emergency preparedness
plans and will continue to use it along with many other tools for crisis communications.
Mobile Campus offers its service free of charge to all students and university employees
at every campus on which it operates. While the system can be used for a variety of
important communications and notifications, including promotional offers, Mobile
Campus has decided, in the wake of the Virginia Tech tragedy, to make the service
available to students and others who want to opt into the system only for emergency
alerts.
The Virginia Tech tragedy, in all its horror, points out the need for a system such
as Mobile Campus - not just in the case of extreme tragedy such as this, or extreme
forces of nature such as a hurricanes, but for the myriad other issues in modern life that
require rapid communication, said George Tingo, president and CEO of Mobile
Campus. There are many circumstances in which rapid communication can save lives,
from weather-related incidents, to terrorist attacks, riots, police actions, rape, robbery
and fire. If a school can save one life or avoid one serious injury or trauma by deploying
a system like ours, it should do so.