Anne Ogborn wrote:
>
>It's
>a) impractically complex. Figure on hiring a couple people.
>
>b) a pager frequency license was recently sold for the SF bay area for 22
million,
>if memory serves.
>
>What's your objection to using the phone lines? Simple enough to get a
pager & activate
>it, then don't give anybody the number. Make a circuit (or use the modem if
you've
>got a PC in the system) to dial the pager number, and off it goes!
>
>Indeed, if it's an alphanumeric pager, they're usually connected to email
addresses.
>Make your software email your pager when the alarm trips.
>Check the latency in this, but it's usually trivial compared to the pager
latency anyway.
>
>
>--
>Anniepoo
>Need loco motors?
>http://www.idiom.com/~anniepoo/depot/motors.html
>

The problem is that I'd like to use a modified version of the alarm for my
car, with a different message going to the SAME pager.

Eventually, I could have a bunch of autonomous systems paging me if
something goes wrong... Get the idea?

Thank you for your help!

Regards,
Andres Tarzia
Tecnology Consultant, SMART S.A.
e-mail: atarzia@smart.com.ar