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In a pioneering study published in Computers, Informatics, and Nursing in 2013, text messaging was isolated and tested as a weight loss tool: the small study divided 28 overweight and obese adults in a community-based weight loss program in the Richmond area into control and experimental groups. The experimental group received text messages tailored to aid in the weight loss process twice per week throughout the 12 week duration of the study.

Text Messaging Can Help With Weight Loss

In this tutorial, we will be going over a brief introduction to the different interfaces for PageGate and their functions.

The full list of interfaces that PageGate supports is as follows:
GUI Client
GetASCII
GetMail
GetSerial
GetTAP
GetWeb
GetSNPP
GetTouchTone

An Introduction to PageGate Interfaces Video Tutorial

Cellular hardware is, by far, the fastest and most reliable method of sending SMS with PageGate. However, the hardware itself has its own limitations on how fast it can push the traffic to the outside world.

Typically speaking, cellular hardware will be able to accept one message for delivery every 2 or 3 seconds, which means that the upper delivery rate on most cellular hardware is between 20 and 30 messages per minute.

How Message Volume Impacts Cellular Hardware

Before we proceed, the following changes can only be made on the PageGate Admin ON the server. These changes cannot be made from any workstation admin consoles.

The first step is to run the PageGate Admin, so go to your start menu, go to Programs, find the PageGate program group, and left click on PageGate Admin.

PageGate Switching Run Styles Video Tutorial

As text messaging and chat become the communication channels of choice for consumers, more hotels are adapting to the trend by inviting travelers to connect with them by SMS, chat widget, or messaging app. Consumers love messaging because its fast, easy, and convenient.

A Nielsen-Facebook survey found that 56 percent of people would rather message a business than call customer service. And more than half of respondents said they are more likely to shop with a business they can message directly. For hotels, messaging represents a fundamental shift in how employees communicate with guests—and with one another. To help with the transition, employees need tools and guidelines.

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You likely text your friends and family, but have you considered sending text messages to your customers? If you have, you are not alone as 1 in every 10 text messages is between a business and a client. With over 7 billion people around the world owning a mobile phone, there is no better time to consider the benefits of using SMS communication (text messages) to grow your business.
Read more at https://www.business2community.com/mobile-apps/text-messaging-can-grow-business-02046364

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While 58 percent borrowers surveyed by Ellie Mae said that they responded to text messages within 10 minutes, 76 percent believed that text speeds up the loan process.

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A new automated text messaging service may curb opioid abuse and reduce the likelihood of relapse while also decreasing treatment costs, according to researchers at Washington University School of Medicine and Epharmix, a St. Louis-based digital health company.

The service provides automated text messages and phone calls to patients being treated for opioid addiction. Such messages ask patients if they're feeling OK or struggling with potential relapse. Patients also can activate a panic button for immediate help.

Time saved from monitoring patients through individual phone calls and in-person appointments may trim medical costs and permit health-care workers to treat more patients without accruing heavier workloads.

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Ellie Mae, a cloud-based platform provider for the mortgage finance industry recently conducted a survey of 500 consumers on their text messaging preferences. Surprisingly, 97% customers said they’d like text messaging to be part of their sales conversation.

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Mobile devices are ubiquitous. I don’t go anywhere without mine, and I bet you have a smartphone with you now. In fact, you may be reading this on a mobile device. But are you doing everything you can to connect with shoppers on mobile? Because according to a survey from Quiq, a provider of chat software, 66 percent of consumer-respondents ranked mobile messaging as their preferred channel for contacting a company.

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Follow these steps to use Whats Up Gold with PageGate

PageGate can be easily integrated with Ipswitchs Whats Up Gold by using the GetAscii module. When you configure an alert in Whats Up Gold, you can configure an execute remote program trigger action to pass alerts to PageGate for delivery.

Send Text and SMS Messages from Whats Up Gold

With PageGate, it is device agnostic, it does not matter what type of device staff members have, messages are still reliably sent. Santee Cooper primarily uses PageGate for management systems to send critical alerts to the staff, but they also use it to send messages to remote staff in the field.

How Santee Cooper is Using PageGate

Follow these steps to use IBM Tivoli Monitoring with PageGate

PageGate can be easily integrated with IBM's Tivoli by using the GetAscii interfaces command line integration.

The first step is to create a directory for the command line executable to reside within.

Steps to Send Text and SMS Messages from IBM Tivoli

PageGate can be easily integrated with Continental Access CA3000 Card Access system by using PageGates SNPP server to receive SNPP alerts.


Send Text and SMS Messages from CA-3000 Card Access Security System

Hilmar Cheeses manufacturing IS support use PageGate to text the IS team on issues that that impact their mission critical environment.

PageGate gives Hilmar Cheese the ability to reduce the number of false positive alerts in their environment and sends correct notifications on critical issues that are impacting their users.

How Hilmar Cheese is Using PageGate

Here are the steps on how to have PageGate use Tweetymail or another third party service to post to Twitter:

The first step is to configure an email address on Tweetymail, Twittermail or your preferred email-to-twitter platform. Typically speaking, you'll need to create an account with their service, log in and link an email address to your Twitter account.

Send Text and SMS Messages Using TweetyMail

Titan International utilizes PageGate throughout their plant in Quincy, IL. Titan International staff members use both pagers and smart phones. PageGate functionality and capabilities helps Titan International's day-to-day business to run smoother by having that constant communications from their phones and their computers between departments.

How Titan International Uses PageGate

PageGate can easily be configured to send messages through Google Hangouts with the XMPP protocol!

How to Send Text Messages to Google Hangouts

Vodafone Fiji Limited uses PageGate as in conjunction with SolarWinds monitoring software. PageGate is deployed in the event of an email server outage to ensure that text messages and alerts are still sent from SolarWinds.

How Vodafone Fiji Limited is Using PageGate

Hyster-Yale uses PageGate tied with SolarWinds and a cellular modem. Alerts of a critical nature are sent when SolarWinds alerts are triggered.

How Hyster-Yale Uses PageGate

Alerts are generated for user-definable events, and may be triggered by the simple occurrence of an event or by the crossing of a threshold value for a monitored Interface, Volume or Node. Alerts may be set to notify different people on different days, different times of the day, different people for different events, or any combination of times, events, and people. Alerts can be configured to notify people who need to know about the emergent event.

How to Integrate SolarWinds Orion with PageGate

PageGate supports sending messages through Verizon's Enterprise Messaging Access Gateway (EMAG).

When registering on EMAG, we recommend registering for the SMTP and SNPP APIs. Registering for both allows you to configure SNPP, the more efficient protocol, as the primary method of delivery with SMTP as a failover method for redundancy.

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The first step is to configure an email address on Tweetymail, Twittermail or your preferred email-to-twitter platform. Typically speaking, you'll need to create an account with their service, log in and link an email address to your Twitter account

Here are the steps on how to have PageGate use Tweetymail or another third party service to post to Twitter

PageGate can be easily integrated with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2007/2012 by using the GetAscii interfaces command line integration.

Steps to Send Text and SMS Messages from Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager (SCOM)

PageGate can be easily integrated with Zuercher Technologies CAD system. Zuerchers CAD can be configured to output a file when a dispatch needs to be sent and PageGate's GetAscii module can be configured to monitor for those files, then read them in and process them out to your recipients and groups.

Send Text and SMS Messages from Zuercher CAD

Viavi Solutions Observer Analyzer can be easily integrated with PageGates GetAscii module.

To start, you'll want to install PageGate on the Observer Analyzer system. You'll also need to create a directory for the integration to reference. It can be any folder on any drive the PageGate server has access to.

Send Text and SMS Messages from Viavi Observer Analyzer

PageGate can be easily integrated with Motorola PremierOne CAD by using the GetMail module to receive email notifications from Motorola PremierOne CAD and process them in to SMS messages to recipients' cell phones, pages to their pagers or many other output methods.

Send Text and SMS Messages from Motorola PremierOne CAD

Cushing Technologies CAD (formerly Agisent) uses PageGates GetAscii module to pass messages to PageGate for delivery. To configure PageGate to accept the messages from the CAD:

Steps to Send Text and SMS Messages from Cushing Technologies CAD

Soderlin Plumbing, Heating & Air uses PageGate daily to communicate with their service technicians. Soderlin sends text messages containing their job information.

Soderlin Plumbing, Heating & Air uses PageGate to communicate with employees on a group or individual basis.

How is PageGate Used By Soderlin Plumbing, Heating & Air?

Over one million U.S. residents are deaf or functionally deaf, and approximately 15% of the U.S. population above the age of 18 reports having some difficulty hearing. While many options are available to the deaf and hard of hearing to aid communication, more current and non-invasive techniques are always in demand. Though many with unimpaired hearing take it for granted, text messaging has been one such technology, steadily changing life for many members of the deaf community as it has grown in popularity and reach.

How Text Messaging Has Changed the Deaf Community

Bangs Ambulance uses PageGate to notify off duty personnel when they are needed in the event that the system is busy due to more 911 type calls than what can be handled by scheduled staff.
How is PageGate Used By Bangs Ambulance?

Rixon Custom Equipment stream alarms from a building automation system ( BAS ) out of a serial port and send them another serial port that PageGate picks up via the Serial Interface. Rixon Custom Equipment then uses PageGate to send Building Automation Alarms via text and email to building engineers to alert then of problems in the building. PageGate enables building engineers to be aware of problems before complaints come in from users.

How is PageGate Used By Rixon Custom Equipment?

While waiting at the airport for your rental car, you get a notification on your cell phone. It is a text from your hotel, asking if you would like a drink or food from room service upon your arrival. It may sound like a futuristic luxury, but the fact of the matter is that scenarios like this are not that far off. Text messaging offers a myriad of ways to boost the hospitality industry, and hotels are bound to take note sooner rather than later.

How Can Text Messaging Change the Hospitality Industry?

PageGate can be easily integrated with Siemens BACnet with our GetAscii module. Siemens BACnet allows you to generate alarms and notifications when certain conditions are met. You'll need to create a directory for Siemens' BACnet to reference, then you will need to configure BACnet to have file access to the directory. Once you do that, you'll want to configure BACnet's alarm notification system to output content to that directory when an alert needs to be generated.

Send Text and SMS Messages from Siemens BACnet

Many modern professionals know that text messaging is a boon to workplace communication. The power texting also holds to boost marketing and contact with customers is also great, and should not be overlooked. This holds particularly true for insurance companies, many of which use texting in a range of ways to enhance their close contact with policy holders.

How Can Insurance Companies Use Texting

PageGate can be easily integrated with Veeam ONE Monitor by using the GetAscii interface. When configuring your alarm response actions, you can have Veeam run a custom script, which allows you to pass notifications to GetAscii's command line interface in response to an alarm.

Send Text and SMS Messages from Veeam ONE Monitor