SMS Voting

SMS voting can be used for serious as well as fun purposes. The idea is to enable a user to give his opinion or choice about something using SMS. Our embedded system will capture the SMS sent by the person and parse it and will display a real time count of the votes each category has got. The typical applications are TV shows, and juke box channels where people can send SMS to select the song they wish to hear. Also the audience can be given the power to select the winner of stage contests.

The system will comprise of a GSM modem interfaced to a microcontroller and a LCD display. The Modem will receive SMS from the service provider. The embedded system will read the message from the sim. The contents of the message will be parsed for responses and the count will be displayed on the LCD screen. A provision can be given in which the message can be scrolled on a channel also