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Integrated Centralized Billing System for Palli Bidyut Samities (PBSs)

The comprehensive web based ERP solution is an initiative by Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board (BREB) to automate New Electricity Connection, Consumer Meter Order, Consumer Information, Electronic Meter Reading System, Bill & Collection System, and Electronic Payment System & Accounting System etc.
Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board
  • Operating System: Linux/Windows Server 2019
  • Language: Microsoft C# .NET
  • Framework: Microsoft .NET
  • Architecture Design Pattern: MVC
  • Digital Image Processing: OPEN CV
  • ML & AI Based OCR: TESSERACT
  • Web Server: IIS
  • Database: Oracle 21c
  • Reporting Tools: RDLC and HTML5
  • Browser: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox

Major Modules

Consumer Information Management System

This module has automated the work processes of online application of new electricity connection management, Allor feriwala/Spot meeting management, application tracking management, consumer meter order (CMO) management, consumer information management, consumer complaint management, meter management, meter problem reporting management, membership & voter management etc.

E-Meter Management System

This module has automated the work processes of meter reading collection and bill delivery through app. data synchronization between app. & BREB server, consumer’s meter location in map view etc.

Accounting Management System

This module has automated the work processes of voucher management, integration with bill and collection module, Form-550 and MIS report generation, electricity sales and system loss management etc.

Bill and Collection Management System

This module has automated the work processes of book assignment management, meter reading entry & checking management, bill tariff management, electricity bill generation management, bill rebate/subsidy management, bill printing management, bill memorandum management, aging management, letter issue & delivery management, bill collection management, bank deposit and bank reconciliation management, electronic payment management, bank collection and bank reconciliation management etc.

User Access & Dashboard Management System

This module has automated the work processes of user creation of BREB and PBS’s, user’s role management, user’s work place change management, system audit log management, user’s password policy management, report engine and user wise statistical dashboard management etc.

Project Details

The Rural Electrification Board of Bangladesh has been providing services to rural member consumers for the last 44 years. Today there are 80 operating rural electric cooperatives widely known as Palli Bidyut Samity (PBS), which are providing services to approximately 30 million consumers of households, businesses, and industries.

The system has automated the following process like online application system of new connection, consumer meter order (CMO), consumer information, consumer complaint management, meter management, meter problem reporting, meter reading entry and bill generation management, bill printing management, bill memorandum management, monthly aging management, consumer letter issue & delivery management, bill collection and bank deposit management, bank reconciliation management, electronic payment, user access & dashboard management and accounting system etc.

The system also integrated 05 mobile financial system (agent, app & USSD), 06 agent banks, 03 bank-booths and 20 bank/branches to pay monthly electricity bills online.

This system is deployed in BREB central data center using full hardware capacity. Currently more than six hundred (600) users are using the system from 16 PBS offices under 02 PBS’s through VPN channels. Implementation activities of other 580+ PBS offices under 78 PBS’s is ongoing.

The system will handle all the activities related to consumer, billing, collection, accounting and snapshots meter reading of more than 30 million consumers from 600+ PBS offices of 80 PBS’s with minimum effort.

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