Automated Electricity Billing System for Bangladesh

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.