The development of the short messaging service (SMS) application for the school usage

Abstract

This research has outlined 2 objectives: to develop a personal Short Messaging Service (SMS) server that is easy to manage by school IT teacher and to develop an SMS application system which is cost effective and does not tied up to the SMS Gateway Service Provider. The Rational Unified Process (RUP) methodology is implemented in this research where the researcher could iteratively do the system development during each phase. The literature review shows most of the Content Delivery SMS services used by people nowadays are rely on the commercial system developer and the SMS Gateway Provider which provides the expensive 5 digits unique number. But the SMS application system developed through this research only need minimum development and maintenance cost and suitable to be used in the school environment. The product of this research is the SMS application system that can avoid the reliance of the Content Delivery SMS application of the student examination result to the SMS Gateway Provider and the commercial SMS application developer. This system can be managed totally by school staff via selected telco without involving the third party as a SMS Gateway Provider as well as the commercial SMS application developer. This system also can be expanded to be another SMS application that is suitable to be implemented in school only by creating tables in the database that has been provided and develop some simple user interface.