Corporate SMS platform :

 Application Overview

 It’s a web based application to facilitate the corporate user to meet their communication requirement. Application is powered by user friendly web interfaces developed in ASP.NET and in the background PostGreSQL/MySQL open source RDBMS. So, the operator can deploy this platform investing a very low amount. 

 System Architecture:

 Corporate Messaging Platform  interface with the SMSC with SMS messages coming via Internet/Extranet. All Push messages will be routed through this platform to SMSC. This platform will format the SMS messages to the required protocol (SMPP) to talk to the SMSC over a TCP/IP link.

 Clients/Applications push or receive messages through Interfaces like URL/http, https and xml thus making the external clients applications protocol agnostics.

The system will have client software by which agent can login and the agent can send and receive SMS. Present system support text SMS. Development is underway to support binary & Unicode SMS shortly.

 CDR can be generated and by using FTP those can be collected.

 The platform generate logs and alarms for statistics and diagnostics. Alarms is generated on conditions like connection time out to the interface, physical link failures, etc.

 The platform is usable by individual clients (Enterprise/Corporate) to send either messages to individuals mobile numbers or a group of mobile numbers using the file upload option (Containing the list of MSISDN no) using the Web interface/URL access provided. Clients back end systems is able to push the messages based on event triggers through a URL call.

 It displays the client ID as the sender ID in the recipient mobile handset. Platform should support Alphanumeric Sender ID.

 Text, Flash, Binary, Unicode Compliant messages

 It has provision to define Alphanumeric origination address as part of the message being submitted

 It has provision to define No. of Messages that can be sent by each client with a validity period Automatic disabling of client account when exceeds the allocated quota

 Clients can define their own sender ID

 It has provision for administrator to enhance quota capacity for individual clients

 Temporary blocking of clients

 Built in MIS for the Operator

 Application Features

The following are the major requirement

1)     User will have interface to write SMS and send to a MSISDN

2)     Create/Edit/Delete desired group with name and MSISDN

3)     Users can import groups from Excel/text file

4)     Send SMS to group

5)     Can specify date/time when then send SMS. Deferred delivery facility is available

6)     Have options to select/deselect few members from the group and then send SMS

7)     View/Find the status of individual SMS by mobile number/ date/time/group name

8)     Can import all the Sent SMS to a excel file with delivery date/time and delivery status

9)     Have options to delete the sent SMS from outbox

10) Options to update user profile & change password

11) Can request info from CityCell & forward those inform to other MSISDN.

12) User can send picture SMS. User needs to forward the Picture to us to convert it to Mobile format with a minimum charge then we will upload it to their inbox & he can send that SMS.

13) User can be restricted to limited number SMS day/month basis.

14) Able the find the user wise usage of the system.

15) Customized reports can be generated based on operator’s requirements.

16)  User can also send MMS from the web site. But this is an additional feature which need some time and additional money to implement.