Kylix SMS ActiveX Component Features

• Support variety brands of mobile phones and equipments such as Nokia, Siemens, Sony-Ericsson, Motorola and Alcatel, as well as GSM/GPRS modems such as Wavecom, Siemens, Sony-Ericsson and Motorola.

• Support several communication interfaces such as Serial Port, Infrared and Bluetooth.

• Support several communication protocols: AT Command, Nokia FBus and Nokia MBus. No need "Nokia Data Suite" any more.

• Support WAP push SMS sending.

• Send and receive USSD command.

• Automatically trigger events when a new message, a delivery report or an incoming-call comes.

• Read and set phone parameters: Model, SMSC number, hardware and software revision, IMEI, time and battery Level.

• Read network information such as network name and signal quality.

• Support regular text messages, Unicode text messages, concatenated text messages, autoshow messages, Nokia flash messages and delivery reports.

• Dial and answer voice calls, send DTMF tones. With these features, your software can perform with more complex functions.

• Provide an interface that directly sends commands to devices.

• Send logos and ringtones automatically converted by this control to different mobile phones. For example, you can send MIDI files to NOKIA phones, ringtones in NOKIA RTTTL format to SIEMENS phones, and JPEG pictures to ALCATEL phones. All you have to do is choose a transmission type, and this control will automatically convert your contents into any compatible format, it's fully compatible to almost any phone(2.5 only).

• Provide a built-in net time protocol with this control, which enables users to get the standard time from an Internet timeserver(2.5 only).

• Read phonebook entries from the phone or the SIM card, or save entries into them(2.5 only).

• Retrieve phone numbers of Missed, Received and Dialed calls(2.5 only).

Kylix SMS Server Features

• Kylix SMS Server is especially designed for adding SMS functions into your software product quickly and effectively. This software uses the method of polling the SMSOut table in the database, and then encodes the messages need to be sent based on SMS format of GSM network, and send the encoded message to GSM Network with mobile phone or GSM Modem. After the message is successfully sent, the software will mark the message in the database as Already Sent. After the recipient receives the message and answers it, the software will insert the answered message into the SMSIn table of the database. Once finish inserting action, it will delete the message in the mobile phone or GSM Modem. When you need to send message with your software, you only need to insert the message and the recipient mobile phone number into the SMSOut table of the database, and then the message will be sent out very soon. If you want to work with the message answered by the recipient, you only need to handle the newly received message in the SMSIn table of the database.

• Kylix SMS Server acquire good compatibility through connecting to database with ADO, it can work with various kinds of databases such as MS Access, MS SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL and PostgreSQL etc. The database may running with Windows, Linux or other operating systems. As long as you have one client or server PC running Windows with your software, you can install the GSM device on that PC, and run this software on it as a SMS server for your system.

• Kylix SMS Server is able to encode the sent message with PDU format of GSM network, and it will automatically detect the language used by the sent message, and handle the message with GSM 7Bits, ASCII or Unicode. It supports both single-byte language and multi-bytes language (e.g. Chinese). For long message, it can be sent in long message mode or split messages mode. You can also set the SMS center number. The software can dynamically display the status of the hardware, such as Sending, Receiving and Idle, and automatically retry for failed outgoing message. All process will have detailed log, enables you to retrieve received, unsent, sent and failed messages for statistic or checking purpose.

• Kylix SMS Server supports various brands of GSM mobile phones such as Nokia, Siemens, Sony-Ericsson as well as several models of GSM Modems, such as Wavecom, Siemens, Motorola and Ericsson etc. This software is able to automatically identify the brand and model of the hardware, and use optimum parameters accordingly. It can read information about hardware including brand, model, IMEI, Battery Level and Signal Quality etc. This software also supports PIN function.

• Kylix SMS Server provides with full log and warning mechanism. It will save the system-running status of software and hardware into a log file, the size of it has been restricted, so you don’t have to worry that it will occupy too much hard disk space. You can use SMS message to report system-running status on a daily basis, such as the number of sent messages, received messages, unsent messages, and hardware equipment, database connection status etc. Meanwhile, the administrator can also send SMS message to get the current system-running status. SMS warning functions can also monitor running status of the database in almost real time, when the hardware or network fails and causes database disconnected, Kylix SMS Server can immediately send warning message to specified mobile phone, get administrator to handle the problem as soon as possible. When using GSM mobile phone as SMS hardware equipment, you can set the software to send a SMS message promptly to the specified phone number when the battery level is low, to remind administrator to charge the mobile phone in time, which can avoid the system down caused by low-battery off of the mobile phone.

• As you can see from the above features that, Kylix SMS Server not only helps you easily incorporate the SMS functions into your software product, but also provide your system with more Running Status Reports at a speed faster than ever before, which will facilitate the maintenance of your system, reduce the maintenance cost and improve the maintenance efficiency.

• Kylix SMS Server can work as an external optional module of your software product, beside that, you can also include this software as part of your software, install it along with your system. You can even choose to “OEM” this software as your company name, making it an integrated part of your product.

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