A Real-time Control System for Home/Office appliances automation, from mobile device through GPRS network

There are numbers of publications addressing control systems for home/office appliance involving infrared remote controls but there is no such publication/protocol/standard addressing solution for mobile-to-home/office appliance controlling through general packet radio services (GPRS) networks without involving any Internet based servers. This paper addresses recent research and development efforts in constructing wireless real-time control system based on server/client architecture through GPRS networks. This paper includes an implementation example designed to control home/office appliance from anywhere & anytime even when user is not at home/office. The paper demonstrates a micro Java application as example of real-time control system for home/office appliances and addresses the development-time and implementation-time experiences.