Volume 3, No. 3, May-June 2012 International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science RESEARCH PAPER Available Online at www.ijarcs.info © 2010, IJARCS All Rights Reserved 345 ISSN No. 0976-5697 An Efficient Design Framework for Building Alerting Systems to Make Regular tags Intelligent Dr JKR Sastry* Professor of computer Science KL University, Vaddeswaram, Guntur (Dt) AP, India, drsatry@kluniversity.in N. Venkataram Professor of Electronics and Communication KL University, Vaddeswaram, Guntur (Dt), AP, India venkatram@kluniversity.in Dr. LSS Reddy Director Lakkireddy Balreddy Engineering College, Mylavaram, Vijayawada, India director@lbrce.ac.in T Sri Lakshmi M. Tech student KL University, Vaddeswaram, Guntur (Dt) AP, India K. Sreenivasa Ravi Professor of Electronics and Computers KL University, Vaddeswaram, Guntur (Dt), AP, India Abstract: Many tags exist for identifying the valuable assets of the individuals. Many events takes places in and around the tags including issues such as tampering, change of location of the object, power dissipation etc that need to be monitored and controlled either through human intervention or through a remote management system using handheld devices. The main issue is to alert the user who is either remote or local through beeps, alarms, messages, buzzing etc. Ability of a tag to communicate with remote devices for alerting using communication protocols that works on either side of the HOST and the TAG through a challenge. Existing alerting system doesn’t have the intelligence to identify the environmental changes and communicate to the user. Intelligent alerting system within a tag is necessary to alert either local or a remote user about environmental changes taking place in and around the TAG. . Various types of mechanisms and methods that can be built into a Tag to make it to be intelligent enough to communicate environmental changes either to a local user or remote user are proposed in this paper. Keywords: Beeping, Buzzing, Alerting, Intelligent Tags, SMS messaging, embedded systems I. INTRODUCTION The growth of technology nowadays became the most significance to people around the world. People today rely on technology and communication because the communication is important in daily life. Technology enables people to communicate in many ways. and methods not only using telephone and letters but using the mobile phone, electronic mail, video conferencing and others. By advancements in technology, different automated alerting systems came into existence. These systems are becoming increasingly pervasive in time and safety critical operations, with applications spanning aerospace, automobile, power control stations, air traffic control and medical monitoring systems. Alert systems are used around the world to provide real time warning to the people. An alert system is characterized by its real time nature, accomplished by instantaneous transmission of events primarily by radio transmission. During an emergency, a person may be rendered unconscious or speechless, following which he may not be able to contact emergency services and state his condition. Medical alert system can provide the much required help in these situations. During disasters’ like earthquakes, cyclones, major calamities these systems play a vital role. Alerting system gives alerts to the end user under different conditions. These systems are now a part in today’s mechanical life. Various conditions like indication of its own location, non-availability of a HOST in its neighborhood, power status, indicating the presence of the hackers disturbing the communication between the TAG and the HOST, loss of communication between the HOST and the TAG, logical tampering of the Tags etc should be in the first place be recognized and then inform to the HOST through different kinds of alerts. Many techniques exists for communicating the changes taking place at the target location which include email, SMS, beeping, flashing etc. to help the user control the adversities. The type of mechanism to be used is very much dependant on the local situation and the type of alert required. The Tags must be built with various mechanisms and methods to make them more intelligent to be able to communicate with either remote or local users regarding the changes taking place in the local environment. In this paper three alerting mechanisms which include SMS, beeping and light emission are presented that are built into the tags to make them more intelligent to sense and control a local environment at which the changes are taking place.