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Disclaimer
This Software Requirements Specification document is a guideline. The document details all the high level requirements. The document should be used as a guideline by the students to design the Solution Architecture for the project. The document also describes the broad scope of the project and high level DB requirements are captured in the DB specification. But while developing the solution if the developer has a valid point to add more details being within the scope specified then it can be accommodated after consultation.
1. Scope
This document describes the scope of the requirements for the Smarter Billing System (SBS) for the electricity board. The document details all the high level requirements with intent to validate the Electricity Board requirements. This document should be used by the Architect and the developers to design the Solution Architecture for the project. In addition to this, the document also describes the broad scope of the project. The scope of the project involves the integration of a subset of all the components of current IT environment.
This integrated system would help establish IT solution for meter reading and billing. So, that accurate data can be collected and monitored this will result in increasing efficiency of its employees. This would also lead to improved customer satisfaction and revenue collection, thereby making the utility self sustainable in the long run. Electricity consumers will also get an e-mail notifying the consumer of the electricity charges for the previous month.
2. Assumptions
The following are the assumptions for this document
1. The Maintenance engineer is responsible for processing the data to calculate the rent and electricity charges based on consumption.
2. The system has an interface with the messaging engine and mailing system.
3. Management Summary
Electricity Board generates, distributes and regulates the electricity supply in the state. They require a distribution system to integrate, automate and manage billing system of consumers. This system will receive messages for each consumer with the consumer ID and the units consumed from a central server; the central server shall receive information from a messaging engine embedded in the EB meter of the consumers on the first of every month. Based on the message from the central server, the SBS will calculate the rent and consumption charges for the previous month for each consumer, and send an e-mail notifying the consumer of the electricity charges for the previous month.