04-09-2014, 03:27 PM
The electrical utility industry is the major provider of energy in most of the countries. Electricity is an integral part of life in developed world. It is indispensable to factories, commercial establishments, home and even recreational facilities. Lack of electricity causes not only inconvenience, but also economic loss due to reduce industrial production. Electrical energy is supplied to the various consumers by the state owned Electricity Board. The billing process involves receiving billing records from various networks; determine the billing rates associated with the billing records, calculating the cost for each billing record, aggregating these records periodically to generate invoices(bills), sending invoices to the customer and collecting payments received from the customer. The project presents a study for modernizing the electricity metering and billing system. This system incorporates the original functions of meter reading system, but will add new functionality of JAVA application as a billing process. The SMARTER BILLING SYSTEM is developed fully using JAVA technol
The electrical utility industry is the major provider of energy in most of the countries. Electricity is an integral part of life in developed world. It is indispensable to factories, commercial establishments, home and even recreational facilities. Lack of electricity causes not only inconvenience, but also economic loss due to reduce industrial production. Electrical energy is supplied to the various consumers by the state owned Electricity Board.
The billing process involves receiving billing records from various networks; determine the billing rates associated with the billing records, calculating the cost for each billing record, aggregating these records periodically to generate invoices(bills), sending invoices to the customer and collecting payments received from the customer.
·To propose the system that replaces the existing manual system with the computer based system. · To calculate the rent and consumption charges for the previous month for each consumer. · To send an e-mail notifying the consumer of the electricity charges for the previous month.
This document describes the scope of the requirements for the Smarter Billing System (SBS) for the electricity board. The document details all the high level requirements with intent to validate the Eelectricity Board requirements. This document should be used by the Architect and the developers to design the Solution Architecture for the project. In addition to this, the document also describes the broad scope of the project. The scope of the project involves the integration of a subset of all the components of current IT environment.
This integrated system would help establish IT solution for meter reading and billing. So, that accurate data can be collected and monitored this will result in increasing efficiency of its employees. This would also lead to improved customer satisfaction and revenue collection, thereby making the utility self sustainable in the long run. Electricity consumers will also get an e-mail notifying the consumer of the electricity charges for the previous month.