DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF COMPUTERIZED BILLING SYSTEM FOR PUBLIC UTILITIES (CASE STUDY WATER CO-OPERATION ENUGU)
ABSTRACT
Billing Automation for Public Utilities (e.g., electricity, gas and water) have been widely studied and implemented in developed countries across the world this project explores the design implementation and application of billing automation for gas consumers. For low gas consumer (domestic consumers) a prepaid meter has been designed which a prepaid card to keep the gas supply need continue. For industrial consumers, a gas meter is wirelessly connected with the regional billing office where the consumption billing will be recorded. Along with the gas, the system can be enhanced to measure and bill the consumption of electricity and water. The major concern of this project work, Design and Implementation of Billing System for Public utilities, is to improve their billing operation for water cooperation Enugu through automation. In achieving this, a computer system is needed as a working tool and visual basic programming language to implement the computerized system.
ORGANIZATION OF WORK
CHAPTER one of this project deal with introduction to the work, statement of problem, aims and objectives, purpose of study, significant of the study, scope, limitation, assumption of study and definition of terms. Chapter two deal with literature review of the project topic and Chapter three deals with description and analysis of the existing system, fact finding method, organization structure, objective of existing system, input/output process analysis, information flow diagram, problems of existing system and justification of the new system. Chapter four deals with design of the new system. Chapter five deals with implementation of the new system. And Chapter six deals with Documentation (program and user). And Chapter seven deals with recommendation, summary and conclusion of the project work and also references.
Table of contents
Chapter one
- Introduction ……………………………………………………1
- Statement of the problem …………………………………2
- Aims and objectives of the study ……………………….3
- Purpose of the study ………………………………………..3
- Significance of the study …………………………………..4
- Scope of the study ……………………………………………4
- Limitation /constraints ………………………………………4
- Assumption of the study …………………………………..5
- Definition of terms …………………………………………..5
Chapter two
- Literature review …………………………………………….6
Chapter three
- Description and analysis of existing system ………18
- Fact finding method ……………………………………….18
- Organizational structure ………………………………….20
- Objectives of the existing system …………………….21
- Input, process, and output analysis …………………21
- Input analysis ……………………………………………….21
- Process analysis …………………………………………….22
- Output analysis …………………………………………….22
- Information flow diagram ……………………………..23
- Problems of the existing system …………………….24
- Justification for the new system …………………….25
Chapter four
- Design of the new system …………………………….26
- Design standard ……………………………………………26
- Output specification and design ……………………..27
- Input design and specification ………………………27
- File design …………………………………………………..28
- Procedure chart …………………………………………..30
- System flowchart …………………………………………31
- System requirement …………………………………….31
- Hardware requirement …………………………………32
- Software requirement ………………………………….32
- Operational requirement ………………………………32
- Personnel requirement …………………………………33
