Hungary 2

Zoltán Dévai (17)

City/Region: Budapest E-mail: huge@uze.net Hobbies: Cycling, riding, sailing, fishing, sight-seeing, visiting museums, hiking and going to concerts Career: Electical Engineer, Information / Computer scientist School: Deutsche Schule Budapest

Universal SMS interface

Today mobile communication has become an inseparable part of our everyday lives. The GSM system is accessible in almost all countries of the world by 400 GSM providers, and is used by more than 500 million subscribers. Yet in spite of the multitude of uses that the GSM network can serve, it still is mainly used for the communication between people be it -- by speech or written text (SMS). Yet as Zoltán points out mobile telecommunication systems can also easily be used to allow for communications between intelligent machines and that is why he developed his own Universal SMS Interface to allow this to happen. His device can receive and send SMS messages in order to control and supervise appliances connected to analogue and digital outputs. He did this to facilitate a wide range of cost-effective applications, from anything from home automation to commercial usage. For instance, his interface can permit you to turn on the heating in your house, have your car sends you an SMS if it is being stolen. In fact the network administrator can control a server from anywhere just by the use of their mobile phone.