Re: Best Approach for Sending Text Messages from Web App

[James Perkins <jrperkinsjr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Twillio [1] has a nice API for sending SMS.

[1] http://www.twilio.com/sms

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James R. Perkins


On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Paul Holm <pholm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> All,
>
> Anyone have insight/advice/gotachas for the following:
>
> We have a client that provides utility (residential and commercial
> water) to city residence.  We are building an application to allow
> citizens to see and track their water usage.  A new requirement is to
> ALERT them if their water usage exceeds a user defined limit.  The
> current alert use automated email but now they are requesting the
> optional feature of sending a text message to the public.  Example
> scenario:  your water line breaks while you are away at vacation, you
> would get a TEXT message stating that your water usage has exceeded
> 100,000 gallons or whatever your limit is.
>
> I know we can send texts using simple email if you know the carrier
> (verizon, att, etc) but this requires the user to select their carrier
> which may change.  Anyone have experience texting using any of the WS
> APIs that return carrier and email information based on a cell number
> passed in?
>
> Thanks in advance,  Paul
>
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