Message Platform Research Articles

SMS-based Remote Computer Supervisory Control System Design

Short message service (SMS) is a technology that can use mobile devices to send and receive text message, with wide coverage area, high popularity, high reliability, low expenditure, easy development and other characteristics. Using GSM module or short message platform of network, short messages can be sent and received between the computer and the mobile terminal. This paper has designed and realized a set of remote computer supervisory system based on SMS communication. The paper elaborates the communication means, hardware and software structure of the system and the working process of the software. The system has good application prospect in some domains, such as remote control, mobile control, miniature control, etc.

Design and Realization of CNG Intelligent Monitoring System

One CNG remote intelligent monitoring system is designed and realized in this article. The monitoring system can receive real time monitoring information and monitor environment of CNG filling station by using GSM short message platform , terminal PC and cell phone based on ARM microprocessor, PTM100GSM module, pressure and temperature detection system, when the pressure, temperature or consistence of gas storage well is over the threshold , the monitoring system will send the alarm signal. Its proved that the monitoring system works stably and reliably and can effectively monitor fatal public danger signal.

Love in the Time of Privatization

A professional engineer who applies project management strategies to her search for love; an event planner who designs weddings that pay tribute to the singular story of a couple’s romance, a story she will also write for them; a businessman whose firm suggests his wife and children complete a performance review of him as a parent to determine how he can be a better father—and therefore happier, and therefore more productive. These are the subjects of Arlie Russell Hochschild’s brilliant but flawed The Outsourced Self: Intimate Life in Market Times, a study of the commodification of family, friendship, and love that falls somewhere between scholarly analysis and pop sociology. If you’ve ever wondered what kind of party someone who specializes in “message platform and rebranding” would throw, read on. Hochschild first coined the term emotional labor to describe the exchange of a socially desirable performance (“Just smile, honey”) for a paycheck. Her landmark 1988 work, The Second Shift, examined the stalled revolution that made employment outside of the home mainstream for American women while leaving them with the lion’s share of housework. A spiritual sequel to The Second Shift, The Outsourced Self is about the psychological and financial contortions that people go through to make the free market work in practice as well as in theory. Fortunately, it’s not the brooding misadventure in psychoanalysis that the title may suggest.

Research on short message system for information support equipment based on MC75

The short message platform based on SIEMENS MC75 module was designed as external extended function of the information support equipment.Connection was set up between MC75 module and the information support equipment by series port.Typical circuits were used by the module to connect SIM card and other peripherals.The short message sending mode and the process of platform working were introduced in the software description.The characteristics of short message platform were expounded in details.Sending and receiving short messages,detail settings and call connections were realized on the message platform with examples.

Working for Water's ‘AlienBusters’: Material and metaphoric campaigns against ‘alien invaders’

This article analyses aspects of the ‘AlienBusters’ campaign against ‘invasive aliens’, initiated in 2000 by Working for Water in an attempt to communicate to a broad South African public the urgent national responsibility for the control of invasive alien plants. The campaign was envisaged by the South African Department of Water Affairs and Forestry as a creative intervention in the government's management of environmental issues because it used strategies drawn from advertising and marketing in an attempt to persuade people to change attitudes and behaviours towards invasive alien plants. In addition, the campaign used fiction techniques and popular cultural references in order to attract its audience's attention. However, the discussion highlights tensions among the assumptions and methods that inform the campaign, situating design, image, narrative and characterisation in relation to volatile, often contradictory, forms of lived experience and symbolic meaning. Focusing on the key message platform of the campaign, the AlienBuster comic book, I argue that the campaign mistakenly emphasised metaphoric transcendence and formulaic narrative resolution over a recognition of material vicissitudes, and that this underplayed important aspects of Working for Water's existing social responsibility initiatives of Working for Water, rendering the campaign unable to accommodate the moral-experiential ambiguity associated with forms of environmental ‘alienation’ and ‘belonging’ in contemporary South Africa.