Maharashtra state board of technical education

Government polytechnic, sakoli

Title:- prepare report on mobile app used for energy

billing procedure
Submitted by
Vrutvik J Wahane
1700910125

(EE6I)

Project guide
S. P. Bhajipale sir

Head of department
V. A. Wararkar

Department of electrical engineering

 DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
GOVERNMENT POLYTECHNIC SAKOLI

Academic Year 2019-20

CERTIFICATE
This is certify that,

Name of candidate Enrollment No.

Vrutvik Joshik Wahane 1700910125

Of third year electrical engineering students have submitted their micro-

project report on "SMART GRID”During academic session 2019-20 as a part of
micro-project work described by Government Polytechnic Sakoli for partial
fulfilment for the diploma in Electrical Engineering in the 6th semester. The
micro-project work is the record of student own work of my guidance and to my
satisfaction

Project Guide

S. P. Bhajipale
Lecturer in Electrical Engineering Department
 I. INTRODUCTION
Android continues to be one of the leading mobile OS and development platforms driving today's
mobile innovations and the apps ecosystem. When the basic functionalities of a wireless network have
been in place, customers are now more interested in value added mobile applications over this network.
Most mobile applications come with the emergence of electronic trading (mobile commerce or m-
commerce), hence good secure mobile trading model must be designed to attract more mobile users for
doing business wirelessly. With the rise of mobile devices and android applications which support the
anytime anywhere feasible action, building an application for utility bill payment like electricity bill
payment is mandatory. The ultimate thing is, as of now there is no live application for Tamil Nadu
Electricity Bill Payment in any market. We have done a frame work on mobile application which makes
use of instant payment method. Generally every human needs to stand in the queue for paying bills and
online sites are also not handy as mobile application. So this application tries to eradicate the
drawbacks of existing payment methodologies such as manual and online payment by bringing the
easier mobile application payment. The implementation of this application will have a great impact
during peak working hours of our day to day life. And we hope that enormous number of people will get
benefitted by this application
UTILITY BILL PAYMENT MOBILE APPLICATION:

Some states in India have developed the electricity bill payment mobile application. But Bill history and
complaint submission options are not available in these mobile applications. [8] Our model proposes a
system which will be feasible than website payment and the all other previous applications. Moreover it
provides convenience, speed and ease of use. We can also access and collect data whilst offline. The
mobile app automatically synchronizes data in the background and stores it on the device, so that users
can access data in the app even without connectivity. Bill Payment is done securely. It also displays the
previous bill history and allows the user to lodge complaints to the electricity board within an arm's
reach. Sociological factors play a role in the choice of communication channels, methods, and overall
effectiveness of any system. Social media and new technologies have been explored for their benefits to
citizens and governments to improve services and communications

PROBLEMS IDENTIFIED IN EXISTING SYSTEM

Electricity bills are the ones which are unavoidable in the current society. There can be no home without
electric current supply. Electricity bills should be paid once in two months and more than one lakh
people should pay bill every month. This leads to long queues in TNEB office. Online website can crash
sometime if there is a large load i.e., large amount of people trying to pay at the same time. Our mobile
application project will solve all these problems and it will provide an easy way to pay electricity bill by
staying at home or wherever you are. It is reliable, efficient and accurate to suit all the requirements.

2.1 Mobile Payment: A Journey Through Existing Procedures And Standardization Initiatives: Mobile
Payment (MP) is a promising and exciting domain that has been rapidly developing recently, and
although it can still be considered in its infancy, great hope is put on it. If MP efforts succeed, they will
boost both e- and m-commerce and may be the killer service in 2.5G and beyond future ambient
intelligence infrastructures. Simplicity and Usability, universality, interoperability, security, trust and
privacy are the basic customer expectations from the mobile network.

2.2 Mobile Commerce Applications and Services: A Design and Development Approach: A new approach
for designing and developing m-Commerce services and applications were given in organized based on
the needs and requirements of the user. MBusiness can be seen as the natural successor to eBusiness
[1] This approach relies on mobile users needs and requirements, the classification of the m-Commerce
services and applications, as well as the current technologies for mobile and wireless computing and
their constraints. Another important factor in designing m-Commerce services and applications is the
identification of mobile users requirements. Classified based on the functionality they provide to the
mobile users – (i) the directory (ii) the transaction-oriented services and applications. M-Commerce
services and applications can be adopted through different wireless and mobile networks, with the aid
of several mobile devices. [1]

2.3 Professional Android Application Development: By providing an open development platform,

Android offers developers the ability to build extremely rich and innovative applications with a rich set
of User Interfaces, support for broad range audio and video file formats. Developers and mobile handset
manufacturers around the world has embraced this new platform due itsopens-source and diverse
application development and running capabilities with programming language as Java. Creating various
android applications and activities which are more useful in daily life have been easy by the Android
development tools which provide easier way for creating User interfaces. [2] Creation of Intents,
broadcast receivers, adapters and the Internet have been introduced in android applications to make
the system feasible among large number of users. Peer to peer communication, data storage. retrieval
and sharing can be achieved in a button click through android devices.

2.4 Android Suburban Railway Ticketing: The Android Suburban Railway (ASR) ticketing is mainly to buy
the suburban tickets. [5] It was one of the first mobile application where the ASR ticket can be bought in
your smart phone using a QR (Quick Response) code.

2.5 A Secure Mobile Electronic Payment Architecture: There are a few payment models proposed in the
literature [2], [21], which can be classified into two categories: the traditional payment model and the
micropayment model. The examples of traditional payment models include the credit card platforms [5],
[1], [24], [23] and the electronic cash platforms [6], [25], [8]. The traditional payment models allow only
one payment in a payment transaction, which has been widely adopted for the event-based
applications. Since a sessionbased application usually requires multiple payments during the execution
of this application, with the traditional payment model, it requires multiple payment transactions to
complete a session-based application. This is inefficient because heavy signaling and computational
overheads are introduced into the network. On the other hand, the micropayment models allow
multiple payments in a payment transaction, which is considered more efficient than the traditional
payment model. Thus, the micropayment models [32], [14], [31], [27] are often adopted for most of
mobile applications. A secure trading model named Mobile Electronic Payment (MEP) for wireless
mobile networks, which applies the emerging ID-based cryptography for key agreement and
authentication is used. Our MEP attempts to alleviate the computational cost, reduce the memory space
requirement in mobile devices, and meet the requirements for secure trading: avoidance of
overspending and double spending, fairness, user anonymity and privacy. [9]

OBJECTIVE OF THE MOBILE APPLICATION:

We develop an android application to overcome all the problems slated above. The user registers
himself into the application by providing his EB consumer number. Once registered a confirmation mail
is sent to his email id. The registered user can pay his electricity bill via credit/debit card or net banking.
The user can also view his previous bill history and number of units consumed. The general complaints
can be lodged via the same mobile application.

SCOPE OF THE MOBILE APPLICATION

Our application saves time and energy by allowing the users to pay electricity bills by staying at home or
anywhere itself. It is secure and reliable as every user uses their unique EB consumer id and payment is
securely done via net banking or credit/debit card. Complaints can be lodged via a single tap in the
mobile application to the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board.
MODULES IN PROPOSED ANDROID APPLICATION

The admin has the rights to maintain all user records, EB bill accounts and complaints. He can add the
customer as new customer is added in the electricity board. He also displays the paid and unpaid bill
details along with the previous bill history. The Users are the consumers of TNEB for whose feasibility
the application is developed. The user Registers for the first time which is authenticated by the admin.
This leads to account creation. The user can pay his bills securely through the mobile payment gateway
of his respective bank. Net banking, credit and debit card options are available for easy transaction of
monetary funds via the mobile application.

THE MOBILE ELECTRONIC PAYMENT PLATFORM

In this section, we present the MEP platform which follows the general trading model. When a new user
U or a mobile application/content provider P joins the MEP, the Key Distribution procedure (to be
elaborated later) is executed to distribute U or P public-private key pairs denoted as (kpub,u, kpri,u) or
(kpub,p, kpri,p), respectively. Then, U can purchase a mobile application from P by running a payment
transaction. In a payment transaction, the signaling messages exchanged among O, U, and P are
encrypted using three symmetric keys ku−o (held by O and U), ko−p (held by O and P), and ku−p (held by
U and P). The three symmetric keys are updated (by utilizing the public-private key pairs) at the
beginning of every payment transaction. A payment transaction consists of three phases, the
Withdrawal phase (where U obtains te tokens from O), the Payment phase (where U uses the tokes to
purchase a mobile application from P), and the Deposit phase (where P redeems the obtained tokens
from O).

CONCLUSION

This research focuses on the design and the integration of an optimized method for developing a bill
payment application. Our thorough analysis suggests Android offers developers the ability to build
extremely rich and innovative applications with a rich set of User Interfaces which will be useful to
enormous number of people who will be benefitted at an arm's reach. Apart from the overheads of
displaying the tariff units by using Power meter billing, Electricity bill payment mobile application has
greater advantage and greater efficiency.