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 ONLINE ELECTRICITY BILLING SYSTEM

1. INTRODUCTION

The proposed application ONLINE ELECTRICITY BILLING SYSTEM is aimed to develop

a web application for the various activities being carried out by the BESCOM. The BESCOM is managed
by the BESCOM officers who are supposed to get all the required information which are needed to
generate an electricity bill for customers for their usage of electricity.
The proposed application is implemented in order to reduce the paper work and help in easier
record maintenance, by having the data stored in database. Hence helps in easy retrieval of data. The
system proposed also reduces the chances of data loss. It provides an easy, maintained and systematic
environment for Admin for generating bills. It is an internet based system where customers can use the
system and check their electricity bill balance.

1.1 SCOPE OF THE PROJECT

 The project is a web based application where users can get instant electricity bill and pay them
online via credit card. The system automates the conventional process of paying electricity bill
by visiting the place.
 The system would be having two login forms; one for admin and the other for users. Admin
can view user account details and can even add or update their account. Admin has to feed the
system with electricity usage data into respective users account.
 The system calculates the electricity bill for every user and updates the information in their account
every month. Users can view their electricity bill and pay on the spot before month end.

1.2 ADVANTAGES:
 The system excludes the need of maintaining paper electricity bill as all the electricity bill
records are managed electronically.
 Users need not visit the office for bill payment.
 Usage of this system saves human efforts and resources.

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2. REQUIREMENTS

2.1 HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS:

 Minimum of 1 GB RAM.
 Pentium IV or higher.
 Hard disk space minimum 20GB.
 Operating system- Windows XP and above

2.2 SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS:

 Front end: HTML, CSS, Java Script.
 HTML: HTML is used to create and save web document.eg: Notepad/Notepad++.
 CSS: (Cascading Style Sheets) Create attractive Layout.
 JavaScript: It is a programming language, commonly use with web browsers.
 Back end: PHP, MYSQL.
 PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) is a technology that allows software developers to
create dynamically generated web pages, in HTML, XML, or other document types, as per
client request. PHP is open source software.
 MYSQL: MYSQL is a database, widely used for accessing querying, updating and managing
data in databases.
 Servers Requirement: XAMPP Server

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3. DESIGN

3.1 DATAFLOW DIAGRAM

Create
customer
admin login
Database

Add
readings

Figure3.1: Admin module creates customer details . By doing this a new customer will be able to make
online payments henceforth.

Login data entry Related Data

customer Select database
View bill
menu

Figure3.2 Customer can login into the system. The customer enters the required information into the system,
and press the submit button. The system will process the details entered by the customer and fetch the related
data to the customer.

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3.2 USE-CASE DIAGRAM

login

registration

signin

signup
Admin
update

account

payment

logout

Edit profile Customer

rrno

About us

Reach us

Figure3.3:In this phase admin will maintain and view all the details regarding registered people
Customer can pay the bill and also can be able to view the status whether the payments are cleared
or not.

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3.3 E-R DIAGRAM

email user
addr

accno
nn
name rr admin
customer no

mob no balance
pwd

currentread electric prereading

ing bill

units date

Bill amt

Figure 3.4: Illustrates how entities are related to each other and the relation between them.

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3.4 ACTIVITY DIAGRAM

Admin Login

GENERATE BILLING

CUSTOMER VENDOR

GENERATE RECEIPTS

FETCH THE UNITS USED

Figure3.5: It depicts modules such as customer and admin which explains the activity with respect to our
application.

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4. IMPLEMENTATION
4.1 MODULE DESCRIPTION

Admin-form:
In this module the admin can login to the system to perform their operation. Admin can see the current
status of the customer. The system should give permission to only administrator to view the registered customers.

Customer-form:
In this module the customer can register by providing the details i.e. username and password, and then they
can login by their username and password to check their current status and payment of bills.

4.2 SAMPLE CODE

Code for admin page:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Keep it Simple</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/style.css"/>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<div id="header"> <a href="http://all-free-download.com/free-website-templates/">bescom.com</a>
</div>
<div id="menu"> <a href="index.php"></a>
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;
<strong>&nbsp; <a href="account.php"> CREATE CUSTOMER ACCOUNT</a> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;
&nbsp;
<a href="transaction.php">ADD READINGS</a> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <a
href="search.php">SEARCH</a> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;

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<a href="index.php">SIGNOUT</a></strong></div>
<div id="sidebar">
<h1>Welcome Administrator</h1>
</div>
<div id="main">
<p align="right"><img src="images/191.jpg" width="545" height="329" /></p>
</div>
<div id="footer"><span class="separator">|</span>&nbsp;</div>
</div>
xc <div align=center></div>
</body>
</html>

Code for account page

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"

"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Keep it Simple</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/style.css"/>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<div id="header">
<a href="http://all-free-download.com/free-website-templates/">bescom.com</a></div>
<div id="menu">
<a href="index.php"></a> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;
<strong>&nbsp;<a href="adminhomepage.php">Back</a>

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&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</strong>

</div>
<div id="sidebar">
<h1>Welcome New User</h1>
</div>
<div id="main">
<form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action="accountsave.php">
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<table width="553" border="1">
<tr>
<td>RRNo</td>
<td><?php
$mysqli= new mysqli("localhost", "root", "", "ele");
if ($mysqli->connect_errno)
{
echo "Failed to connect to MySQL: (". $db->connect_errno . ") " . $db->connect_error;
}
$sql="select * from account";
$result=$mysqli->query($sql);
$cnt=$result->num_rows ;
$cnt=$cnt+1001;
$cnt="RR-".$cnt;
setcookie("RR",$cnt);
echo $cnt;
?>
</td>
<td width="234" rowspan="12"><img src="images/reg1.jpg" width="234" height="234" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="126">Customer type</td>
<td width="171"><label>

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<select name="select">
<option value="Residential">Residential</option>
<option value="Commercial">Commercial</option>
</select>
</label></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Customer name</td>
<td><label>
<input name="textfield2" type="text" required="required"/>
</label></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="28">Mobile No</td>
<td><label>
<input name="textfield22" type="text" required="required"/>
</label></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Address</td>
<td><textarea name="textarea"></textarea></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Date of Billing </td>
<td><input name="textfield222" type="date" required="required"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Email</td>
<td><input name="textfield223" type="text" required="required"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>

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<td>Acno</td>

<td>
<?php
$mysqli= new mysqli("localhost", "root", "", "ele");
if ($mysqli->connect_errno)
{
echo "Failed to connect to MySQL: (". $db->connect_errno . ") " . $db->connect_error;

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5. TESTING
5.1. TYPES OF TESTING

 Testing begins at the module level and works outward towards the integration of the entire computer
based system.
 Different testing techniques are appropriate at different level of time.
 Testing and debugging are different activities, but debugging must be accommodated in any testing
strategy.

System testing:
System testing is the stage of implementation, which aims at ensuring that the system works
accurately and efficiently before actual operation commences.
The electricity billing system project report basically deals with the paying bill; since it is a web
application the problems of single tier could be resolved. This project is an executive information system
that could be used for entering, calculating and monitoring the billing details of electricity.

5.2 TEST CASES

Test Test Test Steps Test Data Expected Actual Pass/fail
case Scenario Result Result
ID
1 Check admin Username= Admin As expected Pass
1. Goto site
login withvalid should login
data Admin, into admin
http://Localhost/e
Password= page
lectricitybilling/a
dmin.php
Admin123
2. Enter username

3.Enter password

4.click submit

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2 Check admin Username= Admin As expected Fail
1. Goto site
login with should not
invalid data Admin, login into
http://Localhost/e
Password= admin page
lectricitybilling/a
dmin.php
Admin123
2. Enter userid

3.Enter password

4.click submit

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Test Test Test Steps Test Data Expected Actual Pass/fail

case Scenario Result Result
ID
3 Check Username= Customer As expected Pass
1. Goto site
customer login should login
with valid data username, into
http://Localhost/e
Password= customersig
lectricitybilling/c
nup page
ustomersignup.ph
password
p

2. Enter username

3. Enter password

4.click submit

4 Check Username= customer As expected Fail

1. Goto site
customer login should not
with invalid customer, login into
http://Localhost/e
data Password= customersig
lectricitybilling/c
nup page
ustomersignup.ph
password
p

2. Enter username

3.Enter password

4.click submit

4.3 DATABASE TABLE:

Login table:
Name data type
Username Varchar
Password Varchar

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Billing details:

Name Data type

Id Varchar
Emailid Varchar
Password Varchar
Fname Varchar
Mobileno Varchar
Cardno Varchar

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6. SCREENSHOTS
Home page:

Figure6.1: admin and customer can login to the system to perform their operations.

Admin login page:

Figure6.2: A module is for admin to login.

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Customer registration page:

Figure6.3: The customer to register by providing the details such as name, address, email id etc.

Admin home page:

Figure 6.4: The admin home page module where admin will be able to provide new electricity line to a
new customer by the create customer account module.

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7. CONCLUSION

The system have automated the online electricity billing system for generate the electricity bill. We
have stated that the project facilitates the provision of safe, authenticated and web based electricity billing system.
Earlier the people had to visit the respective places to pay their bills. With this implemented application, customers
can pay the bills online from anywhere. Also, this system is faster than the earlier methods of manually entering
data, calculating and validating data or who have paid the bill. The system is generalized and ensures to reduce
manual error by reducing manual efforts. Every system has been taken to make the workingof the project
comfortable as possible for the customers. We learned so many things and gained a lot of knowledge about
development field.

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8. FUTURE ENHANCEMENT

Online Electricity Billing System works well with the existing benefits that have been provided in this
system. It is designed keeping in mind the essential features that are important to this project. It is not that,
it includes all the functions, there are pros and cons. Some of them are: Customers are expected to
remember date of billing and payment. Transaction is not designed similar to payment gateway which
includes the necessary options such as Internet-Banking, Credit card, Debit card. Implementation of the
logic of online payment is done in a basic way. The above limitations can be implemented in future.
Further, add-ons to be imposed can also be accomplished.

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Web References:
 www.w3schools.com
 www.phptpoint.com
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP

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