Using cellular / GSM to interface with Windows Embedded

[butner]

Hi:

I'm working on a problem which requires a set of remote nodes running
Windows XP Embedded to utilize some type of cellular (GSM/PCS/3G)
interface to push and receive data updates, including some system
diagnostic information and database increments.

The connection does not need to be persistent, but if that type of
solution was available, it would be considered. Intermittent update
frequency would be hourly, or possibly twice a day.

What are the set of recent-generation devices should I be looking at?

What are the services that support these devices?

Thanks for the help.

Regards

 

[richard]

I think most of us write serial comms to talk to the GPRS modems. Some are
available as GPRS Routers with allow you to use ethernet and then it's all
transparent to XPe.

Richard

 

[zen master]

hi, we have sucessfully implement cellular/GSM interface with XPE, just
use GSM/GPRS modem with dial up networking/dial up server. XPE don't
really care what kind of network it is conected to as long as your dial
up networking configure correctly, it will work. Most of the GPRS/GSM
modem uses *99# to dial up to GPRS network. If you have 3G support in
your country, it is even easier, jsut install the dial up client
provided by you ISP.

In short, just treat it as modem... the rest is your telco/isp's
problem...

 

[butner]

great -- thanks for the confirmations. Now I just need to do the
hardware search. All devices located in US, so ISP options should be
good.