A method for authenticating a Short Message calling party, including: if a Signal Relay Function for support of Mobile Number Portability module detects a calling party number carried in an SM belongs to its serving network after receiving a Mobile Originated SM, the MNP_SRF module adds an identifier of the MNP_SRF module’s network to the calling party number. For this purpose, an encoding sequence unit sets an initial quantization matrix table for an image encoding unit in accordance with a mode set by a mode setting unit, and sets parameters associated with attribute rewrite for an attribute rewrite unit. When a predetermined weighted percentage of the sensors trigger event signals, emergent information that describes conditions at the array location is generated. The method may also include the step of formulating one or more metric equations, each metric equation being defined, in part, by the one or more identified assets.