ICX35-HWC ♦ Industrial Cellular Gateway
EtherNet/IP and SMS Text Messaging
3G/4G LTE
User Manual
ProSoft Technology, Inc.
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6.3.4
Retrieving SMS Text Messages from the ICX35-HWC
Using the ICX35-HWC AOI, SMS text messages that have been sent to the ICX35-
HWC from remote devices can be transferred into RSLogix 5000.
AT&T Users:
For SMS texting functionality, you must power up the ICX35-HWC with
the SIM installed within 72 hours after AT&T activates the SIM card.
Security Tip:
For increased security and to avoid spam, we recommend that you
restrict or limit the phone numbers allowed to send messages to the ICX35-HWC.
Please note that some cellular providers do not offer this capability.
1
Enter a ‘
1
’ in the
ICX35.CONTROL.Read_SMS
controller tag and press
E
NTER
.
2
The
ICX35.SMS.READ
controller tag array populates with the date/time, time
zone, phone number, and SMS text information from the ICX35-HWC internal
buffer.
3
The
ICX35.SMS.READ
parameters are defined in the following table:
Controller Tag
Description
ICX35.SMS.READ.Date_Time[0]
– [1]
Year
ICX35.SMS.READ.Date_Time[2]
– [3]
Month
ICX35.SMS.READ.Date_Time[4]
– [5]
Day
ICX35.SMS.READ.Date_Time[6]
– [7]
Hour
ICX35.SMS.READ.Date_Time[8]
– [9]
Minute
ICX35.SMS.READ.Date_Time[10]
– [11]
Second
ICX35.SMS.READ.Time_Zone
Time zone of ICX35-HWC present location
ICX35.SMS.READ.Phone_Number[0]
– [23]
Phone number of SMS text origination.
(Ex. +18001112222)
ICX35.SMS.READ.Message[0]
– [159]
Text message contents
