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[Vaishnavi Bharadwaj <vaishnavivbharadwaj@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I got to know about the *SMS parsing project* under DHIS2 through GSOC,
2014 and I am very mush interested to work on it and contribute towards its
development.

I would like to say that i have *worked on something similar before where I
had to interface a SIM card to a computer to read its messages and parse
it, in order to forward the message to the appropriate person. *It was a
part of a health system where patient emergencies were monitored using a
smart SMS system. As a result all emergency messages were forwarded to the
doctors on duty.

One of the ways to do this would be to use a scripting language to use
something called *AT commands* which helps us to interface to the SMS
device.
Using there commands, the SMS can be retrieved and can then be parsed
using *regular
expressions* to obtain the context. *The appropriate response* can then be
taken, and also the web API can be made use of to do so.

I would love some suggestions/feedback on the above approach. I would also
like to say that I am *flexible towards taking any approach* which might be
considered better and would not mind any kind of changes, as I am *willing
to learn new things in the process of contributing!*

Looking forward to your reply.


PS - I find your ideas towards management of resources very critical to
improve health system and would love to be a part of the contributing team.

Regards,
Vaishnavi,
Third year Undergraduate,
Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
PESIT,
Bangalore, India.