Abstract:
TherearemainlythreeutilityservicesavailableinBangladesh. TheyareElectricity,Natural Gas and Water. The procedures of these services are mainly manual. We tried to give an automated solution for these utility services, starting from applying for the service to the billing system along with all other facilities required. We mainly focused on electricity utility service for the proposed solution. But this solution can be equally applicable to any other utility services with certain modification. Since the bill payment can be done through online banking and application for new connection can be done online, we emphasized on meter reading and its processing to generate bill. We proposed a GSM based meter reading service and tried to make a prototype with present electric meter available in Bangladesh. We believe this solution can upgrade the utility service of Bangladesh. It will be helpful to monitor the usage of the services, to control the services remotely, to stop corruption in this sector and also to make efficient consumption of valuable energy of Bangladesh.
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We are thankful to Almighty Allah for his blessings for the successful completion of our thesis. Our heartiest gratitude, profound indebtedness and deep respect go to our supervisor Md. AzmalHossain,FacultyofMIST&GraduateStudent,DepartmentofCSIT,SCSU,St. Cloud, MN, USA for his supervision, affectionate guidance and great encouragement and motivation. His keen interest on the topic and valuable advices throughout the study was of great help in completing thesis.
WeareespeciallygratefultotheDepartmentofComputerScienceandEngineering(CSE)of Military Institute of Science Technology (MIST) for providing their all-out support during the thesis work.
Finally, we would like to thank our families and our course mates for their appreciable assistance, patience and suggestions during the course of our thesis.
