Generic information system using SMS gateway

Abstract

In the last few years, SMS (Short Message Service) has made a big impact on the way we communicate. Instead of communicating over the phone using voice, people rather prefer SMS not only for messaging but also for information exchange. This paper proposes a method of building an extendable generic application which can be used to provide various types of information services using mobile SMS. Mobile users send required information through an SMS to a mobile gateway that forwards it to the generic application. Given the user-provided information, the generic application automatically generates an appropriate query. © 2009 IEEE.