This video shows us how to use the Arduino board with Arduino Ethernet shield to create a system that could alert your iphone for receiving new mail from your mail box.This system has used Arduino Ethernet Shield for communication with a push alert application called Prowl to handle the alert part of the whole system. By receiving an signal from the changes of the physical mail box, it will send an notification to your iphone.
For physical setting, the video will use a snap action switch to get signal while someone open the mail box. After that, it connects to the Arduino Ethernet Shield for receiving the signal changes and delivery this message to your phone.In programming part, there are some good source codes that could download from github to communicate with Prowl application. Please follow those instructions in the video and you could easily create your own mail alert system.
Thus, this video is useful on others alert application for your own use. Please try to develop your own alert application by using this video as your reference.
The video link:
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMzc0ODczNzg0.html