Wireless Remote Access THrough Cellular (WRATH – C)

Wireless Remote Access THrough Cellular(WRATH – C) Team Members: Sam Bhoot Milap Dalal Kartik Natarajan David Yee

Objectives • Acquire Hardware: • Embedded computer • Cell phone • PC link • Peripherals • Install OS and necessary software • Perform preliminary tests of hardware • Work on Perl automation scripts

Hardware • Computer – Compu-Lab 686 BASE • 333 MHz Processor • 64 M of RAM • 40 Gig Hard-drive • Cell Phone • Motorola T720 – found to have problems • Nokia 6190

Hardware • Cell Phone – Motorola T720 • T720 operates as a modem so accepts Hayes AT command set. • AT+CMGS – Send text message • AT+CMGR – Receive text message • T720 did not support direct SMS from PC. • Tried uploading message to SIM card and send SMS for memory location. • Method proved to be unsuccessful due to insufficient documentation.

Hardware • Cell Phone – Nokia 6190 • 6190 supports direct SMS from PC • Requires specific drivers for communications but Nokia only supports Windows OS • Un-official drivers exist for operation with Linux called GNOKII • GNOKII allows full access to phone including storing information on memory and SMS

Configuration • Software: • Install Redhat 9.0 text-based operating system. • Compile GNOKII drivers. • Configure GNOKII to operate with Nokia 6190 with a dau9p cable on Serial port (ttys0).

Prelim.Testing • Send commands to phone through PC link • Failed – Communication timed out. • Further configurations led to very slow communications (approximately 5 minutes) and errors in data. • Problem with embedded computer. • Too slow? • BIOS not configured correctly? • Tried again using Dell Laptop • Success! – Full access to phone’s functionality. • Solution: Develop with Laptop and export to Compu- Lab after completion.

GNOKII Testing • GNOKII commands to send SMS: bash-2.05b# echo "Testing this method"|gnokii --sendsms 9739791811 GNOKII Version 0.6.0 Send succeeded! • GNOKII commands to receive SMS: bash-2.05b# gnokii --getsms SM 1 GNOKII Version 0.6.0 1. Inbox Message (unread) Date/time: 06/04/2004 12:09:19 -400 Sender: +19739791811 Msg Center: +12063130004 Text: Hello mr phone guy!

Perl • Simple script writing language • Script – sequence of commands that the user frequently uses • Handle low-level tasks better than C (i.e. memory allocation)

Flow Chart Cell Phone /outbox/sent YES checkSMS.pl NO /outbox/fail OK? NO Done SMS? Same Cell Phone YES Store & Delete Sensor Tripped sendSMS.pl /inbox/new Application /outbox/new

Description of Parts • checkSMS.pl • Checks cell phone for any messages in SIM • If there is, save message and delete it from SIM • Do not want any old messages on the phone • Send command to Application • Adds message to a history file

Description of Parts (con’t) • Application: Sensor board • Inputs • Text command • Sensor warning • Outputs • Prepared SMS response message for transmission

Description of Parts (con’t) • sendSMS.pl • Takes response SMS message and transmits • Adds message to a history file • If there is an error, give up and add message to failed history file

Gnokkii’s command output gnokii’s code for reading SMS searches and stores sender’s number stores text message A little Perl code bash-2.05b# gnokii --getsms SM 1 GNOKII Version 0.6.0 1. Inbox Message (unread) Date/time: 06/04/2004 12:09:19 -400 Sender: +19739791811 Msg Center: +12063130004 Text: Hello mr phone guy! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- my $reply = `/usr/local/bin/gnokii --getsms SM 1`; chomp($reply); if ($reply ne "SMS location SM 1 empty." && $reply ne "") { my $txtmsg = pop($lines); my @lines = split "\n",$reply; my $sender=""; my $tmp=""; my @tmp; foreach (@lines) { if (/Sender:/) { ($tmp,$sender,@tmp) = split (" ",$_); chomp($sender); $sender =~ s/\+//g; } } }

A little more Perl code my $in = "/var/wrathc/inbox/new.txt"; open SMSNEW, ">>$in" || die "ERROR: $_"; print SMSNEW "$sender\n$txtmsg\n\n"; close SMSNEW; stores SMS into file

Cron • Continuously running program on Unix • Used to schedule when specific commands are executed • We will use this to periodically call checkSMS.pl • More research needs to be performed

Future Goals • Finish Perl automation script for transmitting and receiving SMS. (Dave & Milap) • Develop code for application stage. (Kartik) • Continue researching methods to interface with sensor board. (Sam) • User Authentication (Kartik & Sam) • Export to Compu-Lab board.

Timeline • 4/15 – Finalize design for sensor board. Continue working on Perl SMS scripts and application scripts. • 4/22 – Finish Perl SMS scripts. Continue working on application scripts and user authentication methods. • 4/29 – Finish all coding. Preliminary testing of completed project. • Final: Demo completed design project.

Team Member Responsibilities • Sam Bhoot – Hardware configuration, GNOKII development • Milap Dalal – Perl coding • Kartik Natarajan – Hardware configuration, AT command set research. • David Yee – Perl coding

Wireless Remote Access THrough Cellular (WRATH – C)