<p>Students of GSSS Institute of Technology for Women - Akshatha A M, Namitha J and Pooja C M - have designed the Mobile Access Controller Software (MACS) to detect your cellular phone even if it’s on silent mode.<br /><br />Once MACS is installed on your phone, a pre-defined SMS to the ‘lost mobile’ from any other cellphone will initiate a wailing alarm - similar to a siren - helping the user to locate the missing mobile.<br /><br />Guided by their lecturer, Ravi Kurapati of the Information Science Department, the trio designed the application on a Windows mobile. They believe that the application can be designed for any phone, not necessarily a smartphone.<br /><br />Forgot to take your mobile?<br /><br />Interestingly, the application is also helpful if you’ve forgotten to take your mobile and need a telephone number stored in your cellphone. All you need to do is send an SMS from another phone with the name of the contact whose number you want and a prefixed security code. <br /><br />The application retrieves the contact and sends the phone number through an SMS. If you’ve spelt the name wrong, then a reply ‘Invalid contact’ arrives on your phone.<br /><br />Panic alert<br /><br />Adding edge to their application is the ‘Panic Alert’. If a user is in trouble or ill and wants to contact his/her family, a ‘panic icon’ is created when the application is installed on the Windows mobile. Immediately, SMSes with the message ‘Pls help me’ are sent to three prefixed numbers. <br /><br />The application also performs other wonders such as giving you a list of missed calls and unread messages that have come to your phone, if you forgot to take it with you. It also stores a back-up of entire contact list on your email. <br /><br />The trio say their next aim is to develop a software to keep reminders of birthdays, anniversaries and send matching messages to the respective people.<br /></p>
<p>Students of GSSS Institute of Technology for Women - Akshatha A M, Namitha J and Pooja C M - have designed the Mobile Access Controller Software (MACS) to detect your cellular phone even if it’s on silent mode.<br /><br />Once MACS is installed on your phone, a pre-defined SMS to the ‘lost mobile’ from any other cellphone will initiate a wailing alarm - similar to a siren - helping the user to locate the missing mobile.<br /><br />Guided by their lecturer, Ravi Kurapati of the Information Science Department, the trio designed the application on a Windows mobile. They believe that the application can be designed for any phone, not necessarily a smartphone.<br /><br />Forgot to take your mobile?<br /><br />Interestingly, the application is also helpful if you’ve forgotten to take your mobile and need a telephone number stored in your cellphone. All you need to do is send an SMS from another phone with the name of the contact whose number you want and a prefixed security code. <br /><br />The application retrieves the contact and sends the phone number through an SMS. If you’ve spelt the name wrong, then a reply ‘Invalid contact’ arrives on your phone.<br /><br />Panic alert<br /><br />Adding edge to their application is the ‘Panic Alert’. If a user is in trouble or ill and wants to contact his/her family, a ‘panic icon’ is created when the application is installed on the Windows mobile. Immediately, SMSes with the message ‘Pls help me’ are sent to three prefixed numbers. <br /><br />The application also performs other wonders such as giving you a list of missed calls and unread messages that have come to your phone, if you forgot to take it with you. It also stores a back-up of entire contact list on your email. <br /><br />The trio say their next aim is to develop a software to keep reminders of birthdays, anniversaries and send matching messages to the respective people.<br /></p>
