MANAGEMENT OF SERVICES, MONITORING AND REMOTE CONTROL OF WIRELESS PUBLIC TELEPHONES BY MEANS OF DATA PACKETS

摘要

Monitoring and remote control of one or more public telephones with an interface for communication with a central control node. The orders for monitoring, programming and/or control are entered in the central control node, which structures a message in accordance with a communication protocol established between the central control node and the wireless public telephones; this structured message is transmitted to the wireless public telephones by means of a data communication interface, for example the Internet, the wireless public telephone interprets the content of the message in accordance with the communication protocol, and updates its programming on the basis of the information received. The wireless public telephone can generate information relating to the operation of its own telephone, or detect internal faults, and, if one of these events occurs, it structures a message with the information based on the protocol, and sends this to the central control node on a data communication interface, for example GPRS, EDGE, CDMA2000, UMTS, FOMA, WCDMA, TD-SCDMA, HSDPA or HSUPA; once the central control node receives the message, it interprets it in accordance with the communication protocol, and structures statistical and/or administrative reports for each of the telephones from which the information is obtained. The invention also describes a management terminal which is connected to the wireless public telephone in order to request services of validation, authentication, identification and/or updating of information, which are managed by service providers.