NotePage SMS, Texting and Messaging Blogs

Internet and IP monitoring software triggers a message based on an anomaly. PageGate picks up the message, then does any one or combination of the following options including: executes a batch file, runs a script, updates an API, passes the text message to a messaging aggregator, sends a fax, sends email, interacts with a HIPAA compliant messaging solution, updates the Web API, sends text to cell phone or pager, updates a chat client, or sends message to an enterprise messaging solution.

Internet and IP Monitoring Software SMS or Text Message Flow

PageGate can be easily configured to pass messages through MessageBirds service by using MessageBird's REST API to pass HTTP POST requests.

Send Text and SMS Messages from MessageBird

Standard text messaging is not a secure method of message delivery. When you need to send secure text messages, you will need a service that provides a secure gateway for the text messages to be delivered through and a secure way for the phone to read the text message.

How Secure Messaging Works

Send Text and SMS Messages from Harris CAD

Mine and Slope Monitoring Software SMS or Text Message Flow

Infographic showing Mine and Slope Monitoring Message Flow

Send Text and SMS Messages through FirstNet

Use AT&T FirstNet with PageGate

Take a look at the history and evolution of the cell phone over time.

When Did Cell Phones Come Out?

Send Text and SMS Messages through Voip Innovations APIDaze

Use VOIP Innovations APIDaze with PageGate

PageGate can accept text and SMS messages a variety of ways.

Ways that PageGate can accept incoming messages

Educational Video Tutorials on SMS and Text Messaging

PageGate Video Tutorials

Steps to use PageGate with Sprint EMG. Send Text and SMS Messages through Sprint EMG

Sprint EMG

Educational Articles on SMS and Text Messaging

NotePage has worked with the following delivery services to develop tutorials detailing how NotePage's software can be used in conjunction with their services.

Steps to Integrate PageGate with Message Aggregators and Delivery Services

Cellular hardware is the most reliable and efficient method of delivering SMS. By using cellular hardware, you're removing PageGate's reliance on your internet connection to deliver your messages which means that your internet connection could go down and your messages would still be delivered.

GSM and Cellular Modems, Routers & Gateways

In December of 1992, Neil Papworth a young contract developer working for Vodafone sent the very first SMS message in the UK . The message was a simple one, Merry Christmas and it was sent to Richard Jarvis, a director at Vodafone.


When Was the First Text Message Sent?

Time Line of When Cell Phones Were Invented


When Were Cell Phones Invented?

Huge collection of Text Messaging Acronyms and Texting Abbreviations

There are many different makes and models of cellular modem. There are those made by Multitech, Airlink and Huawei (pronounce: wah-way), just to name a scant few, and there are dozens and dozens of models you could use. There are really only two things that matter.

First, the device needs to provide a COM port in the operating system. Second, the device needs to support the AT command set to deliver messages. As long as both of these things are true, you should be able to use that cellular modem with PageGate.

How to Use Cellular Modem for Delivery Video Tutorial

How PageGate can be used with Weather Monitoring Software

With SMS entering just about every crevice of our lives, it's no surprise that it has taken up a significant role in dating. After all, if relationships depend on communication, it is only natural that one of our favorite modes of keeping in touch figures into our romantic lives. In short, dating and relationships have continued to change with the times-- but has texting changed dating?

How Texting Is Changing Dating and Relationships

Providers across industries are embracing text messaging as a modern boost to their marketing and customer service. While the home security industry is hardly an exception, it is doing even more interesting things with texting; some security companies are incorporating text messaging into the very services they offer, and to much benefit.

Can A Text Prevent Theft? How Home Security Is Using SMS

Texting touches nearly every area of our lives these days, taking an increasingly large role in our social, personal, professional, and romantic lives. With its great impact, and our near obsession with our cell phones, it does not seem far-fetched that our texting habit is affecting our brains. But could it be true?

Is Texting Changing Our Brains?

Text messaging is used a variety of ways in the ambulance services. Some of the industry specific uses for PageGate include:

- Emergency Alerts and Critical Incident Notifications
- Dispatch Notifications to Improve Response Times
- Transport Detail Alerts
- Traffic Delay Alerts
- Training or Continuing Education Notifications
- Staff Communication and Announcements
- Appointment Reminders for Scheduled Transports
- Improve Decision Making with Information
- Easy Communication in Mass Casualty Events
- Road Closure Notifications

Text Messaging & Communication Software for Ambulance Services

Hospital and medical solution triggers a message either based on conditions or manually. PageGate picks up the message, then does any one or combination of the following options including: executes a batch file, runs a script, updates an API, passes the text message to a messaging aggregator, sends a fax, sends email, interacts with a HIPAA compliant messaging solution, updates the Web API, sends text to cell phone or pager, updates a chat client, or sends message to an enterprise messaging solution.

How PageGate Can be used in Hospital and Medical Monitoring

When a failure is detected in a business or companys network infrastructure, it is important that the network administrator (or others) are aware of the problem. The easiest way to do this is to send text message notification(s).

Send Alerts from Network Monitoring Software

Just a reminder NotePages entire staff ALL have the capacity to work remotely we are able to continue to provide support and service without interruption throughout the pandemic.

Learn about Secure Messaging, Encrypted Messages and HIPAA Compliance

Wireless modems, in general, are an excellent option for message delivery. They simplify setup, reduce the administration requirements, improve the reliability of PageGate and NotePager Pro. Now any Android phone can be used as a wireless modem with PageGate and NotePager Pro.

Many android phones limit text message delivery to 100 messages per hour. The NotePage SMS Gateway App includes 10 limit extender services, allowing up to 1000 messages per hour to be sent.

Learn More About NotePage Android SMS Gateway

NotePage is releasing a new version of PageGate in the next few months. HINT: It is a GREAT time to purchase PageGate Priority Support (version upgrades are free to subscribers). Please contact us to add Priority Support to your license.

PageGate supports communicating with wireless hardware (i.e. modems, phones, routers, etc.) that support the AT Command Set as defined in the GSM specification. This includes the vast majority of cellular/mobile/wireless modems available today.

Using a wireless modem, wireless router, or other similar hardware can be the most reliable and efficient method to deliver SMS text messages. Wireless hardware removes an organization's reliance on an active Internet connection, or other wired connection when sending messages. Another advantage is that the only piece of information necessary to deliver messages via a wireless modem, is the recipient's phone number.

The GSM-AT protocol uses a serial connection to communicate with the wireless hardware.

In order to send a message using GSM-AT-IP you only need a single piece of information. That information is the mobile number you wish to send the message to.

PageGate Supports Sending Messages Out Using GSM-AT / GSM-AT-IP

Incident Management Software triggers an event due to an anomaly that is detected. The event can be passed to PageGate any variety of ways, possibly by posting to a webpage, PageGates web API picks up the message uses the PageGate Filter Script to look for keywords and/or reformats the message based on the defined PageGate Filter Script parameters. PageGate then does any one or combination of the following options including: passes the text message to a messaging aggregator, sends a fax, sends email, updates the Web API, sends text or SMS to cell phone or pager, updates a chat client, sends the message to cellular hardware, executes a batch file or runs a script, initiates a GET/POST to the web, updates the incident management software or sends message to an enterprise messaging solution.

Incident Management Message Flow

Summer is in full swing, and for many of us, months of bright and sunny weather lie ahead. But before you pack the car and head to the beach, are you making sure you're protecting yourself from sun damage? If you find yourself forgetting the sunscreen or the hat a little too often, a new study from Australia may have a solution for you-- and that solution takes the form of texting.

Sun protection is of huge importance.

Can SMS Bolster Skin Cancer Prevention?

PageGate can be easily integrated with Schneider Electrics Struxureware by using PageGates GetMail interface.

GetMail gives PageGate the ability to receive an email and translate that in to an SMS, page, update to a web API, etc, and Logentries has the ability to send an email when an alert needs to be sent.

Send Text and SMS Messages from Struxureware

The Serial Port Interface enables PageGate to monitor a physical or virtual serial port (RS232 port) for data.The Serial Interface is often used to accept text that would normally be sent to an alarm system, alarm panel or printer, and extract message information from that data.

The Serial Interface monitors the port for pattern match sections.

The PageGate Filter Pack is used in conjunction with the Command Line ASCII Interface, enabling PageGate to pass all messages through a customizable filter. This gives PageGate the power to completely reformat the contents of, or extract data from the original message text. Extracting message data from textual data formats like HTML, XML, JSON, etc. is possible using the Filter Pack.

The Filter Pack also support logic operations, allowing for variable output conditional on the content of the original message. In addition, the Filter Pack supports a powerful RegEx (regular expression) engine, opening the possibility of data extraction from just about any data file format.

Checkout the the PageGate Filter Pack, which is an add-on that allows for message processing, substitution and filtering.

Follow these steps to create tickets in Jira using PageGate

PageGate can be integrated with Jira in two ways. You can have PageGate create tickets in Jira or you can have Jira send alert messages through PageGate and both are accomplished with Jira's REST API.

This document details how to have PageGate create tickets in Jira.

Creating an issue using the Jira REST API is as simple as making a POST with a JSON document. To create an issue, you will need to know certain key metadata, like the ID of the project that the issue will be created in, or the ID of the issue type.

Steps to Have PageGate Create Tickets in Jira

Text Messaging Etiquette for the Modern Day
Texting is ubiquitous with keeping in touch and while texting may in many ways make communication easier, there are a number of potential challenges inherent to the platform.  We have put together a list of basic tips that will assist texters in avoiding some of the more common text etiquette faux pas.

Choose Your Recipients Carefully
There is nothing worse than sending a message intended for a paramour, to your boss or a client.  While this example may seem extreme, it can and does happen. Pay careful attention to the recipients selected. Often in a group communication, you may not always see all the recipients included in the group, be careful what you choose share.

Text Messaging Etiquette for the Modern Day

Text messaging is used a variety of ways in mortgage companies. Some of the industry specific uses for PageGate include:
~ Alerts on rate changes
~ Fraud alerts
~ Notifications of closing date and times
~ Notifications of mortgage approvals
~ Notifications of missing documents
~ Mortgage status updates
~ Payment reminders and notifications
~ Notifications of payment received
~ Routine employee communications
~ Alerts on transactions

SMS and Text Messaging Software for Mortgage Companies

NotePage has worked with the following software applications to develop tutorials detailing how NotePages software can be used in conjunction with the solutions below.


How to Send Messages from Existing Applications

Container monitoring software triggers a message based on specified conditions. PageGate picks up the message, then does any one or combination of the following options including: executes a batch file, runs a script, updates an API, passes the text message to a messaging aggregator, sends a fax, sends email, interacts with a HIPAA compliant messaging solution, updates the Web API, sends text to cell phone or pager, updates a chat client, or sends message to an enterprise messaging solution.

Container Monitoring Software SMS or Text Message Flow - Visual

Despite all the good they do for us, cell phones still seem to have a bad reputation when it comes to our intelligence. We have all heard about fears of the prevalence of cell phones and texting causing our minds to rot away, damaging our grammar, spelling capabilities, interpersonal skills, and even capacity for profound thought. However, it's possible that we may use our phones to the exact opposite effect; smart phones may in fact be used to enhance intelligence.

While smart phones may not be the impetus for intelligence-enhancing programs such as Lumosity, they certainly make them more accessible. Lumosity is an online-based program providing a myriad of games that challenge and improve various aspects of users' intelligence, and its tactics are supported by substantial neuroscience research.

Can Your Smart Phone Make You, Well, Smarter?

When a failure is detected in a business or companys network infrastructure, it is important that the network administrator (or others) are aware of the problem. The easiest way to do this is to send text message notification(s).

While many network monitoring applications have the ability to inherently send email notifications, if the network failure impacts the email system, the alert will not be sent. In order to ensure that alerts are sent and received, we recommend using a 3rd party solution like PageGate along with cellular hardware to send the notifications wirelessly. That way if there is an issue with the network infrastructure the notifications will still be sent and received.

Send Alerts from Network Monitoring Solutions

Text messaging is used a variety of ways in assisted living facilities and nursing homes. Some of the industry specific uses for PageGate include:

~ Emergency Alerts and Security Notifications
~ Elopement Management Notifications
~ Bed Monitoring and Management Notifications
~ Communication to Family of Events or Activities
~ Appointment Reminders and Alerts
~ Medication Reminders
~ Notification of Scheduled Tests and Procedures
~ Critical Alerts When Lab Tests are Available or Completed
~ Mandatory Staff Training or Continuing Education Notifications
~ Staff Communication and Announcements
~ Critical Incident Notifications
~ Improve Decision Making with Information
~ Fundraising Notifications

Text Messaging for Assisted Living Facilities and Nursing Homes

PageGate can be simultaneously accepting hundreds of messages from multiple sources such as email, webpages, analog modems, manual dispatchers, integration with other applications, etc., while also delivering them with up to sixteen concurrent outbound communication sessions.

Send Text Messages Out Using a Variety of Methods

The Command Line ASCII Text API is capable of monitoring a directory or a series of directories on the local hard drive or across the network, for an ASCII/text file output. The interface also provides a command line interface (executable) for other applications to use. The messages can then be formatted or directed to mobile phones or wireless devices.


Send Messages Into PageGate Using the Command Line ASCII Interface