Postpaid System Research Articles

Preferensi Masyarakat Terhadap Sistem Prabayar dan Pascabayar untuk Jaringan Gas Rumah Tangga di Wilayah Cikarang

Government, through the Head of the Communication Bureau, Public Information Services and Cooperation, Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, conveyed a plan to build household gas networks in more than 50 districts and cities that aim to balance the mix of fossil energy use in society. The prepaid system is a payment system that allows users to enjoy services after making a payment. It aims to limit the service as needed, while the postpaid system allows its users to use the service indefinitely during the time span given by the service provider. Currently, the household gas network is equipped with postpaid meters, but it does not rule out the possibility of a prepaid system being applied if it is able to provide better convenience and comfort. Based on the research we conducted to determine public response of Cikarang society against the payment system, as much as 55% of the total sample studied preferred to use the postpaid system rather than the prepaid system on the household gas network. However, it is possible to use prepaid payment system for household gas networks (respondent's result is 35%) if the supporting facilities are continuously improved and developed for better service in the future.

PERBANDINGAN KONSUMSI ENERGI LISTRIK TERHADAP BIAYA LISTRIK MENGGUNAKAN SISTEM PRA BAYAR, PASCA BAYAR DAN TENAGA SURYA PADA SKALA RUMAH TANGGA

In general, people in Indonesia use the electricity purchasing system from the state electricity company in two ways, namely Postpaid and Prepaid. In postpaid electricity subscription mode, the customer uses electrical energy first and then pays the bill the following month. PLN officers must record the meter, calculate and issue accounts to be paid by customers, bill customers who are late or do not pay, and cut off electricity if consumers are late or do not pay their electricity bills after a certain time. This is a weakness in the postpaid system because of the gradual process before the customer finally makes a bill payment. Prepaid electricity is introduced to customers by providing several conveniences, namely being able to control their own use of electrical energy, customers only need to buy vouchers or tokens according to the desired nominal. This is also a form of sales control carried out by PLN because it can reduce the amount of customer receivables, so there is no need for late fees and can also maintain customer privacy by not calculating kWh meters every month. The solar electric system provides a new breakthrough by utilizing solar energy which is then converted into electrical energy. The use of solar energy for electricity generation has actually been carried out for a long time, namely since the early 1980s, but its application is still limited to small power systems or better known as the Solar Home System (SHS). This research has successfully implemented a comparison of postpaid, prepaid and solar energy use. From the test results, it is found that the most economical prepaid system among other systems applied is the postpaid system and the solar power system. The results of tests carried out at the household scale show that during the 10 years of life, the results of using prepaid electricity are 16.6% more efficient than solar panel systems and 17.7% more efficient than postpaid electricity and prepaid electricity is 1.34% more efficient than postpaid electricity

‘They don’t read metres, they only bring bills’: Issues surrounding the installation of prepaid water metres in Karoi town, Zimbabwe

ABSTRACT City and town administrators in Zimbabwe continue to push for the installation of prepaid water meters (PWMs). This is despite the residents' objections to the proposal. The merits and demerits of PWMs continue to be debated, and more empirical information will help chart a new course especially in smaller cities in poor countries. The paper adopts a qualitative research design and case study approach in eliciting information from respondents. Water governance institutions and 35 residents in Karoi town were purposively sampled to understand how they viewed the impact of PWMs installation in the water supply chain. Data collection tools included questionnaires, documents, observations and focus group discussions (FGDs). Findings revealed that respondents perceived water is an indispensable commodity, a right and one that should be enjoyed by every citizen regardless of their social or economic status. The installation of PWMs also runs contrary to the Zimbabwean Constitution as it deprives low-income citizens of water if they could not afford to pay. Instead, a more appropriate delivery mechanism is the traditional post-paid system, which allows consumers to access water based on affordability.

IJARCCE - Computer and Communication Engineering

In our India, there is lot of use of electricity in many different sectors and areas. This paper is based on prepaid system not postpaid as like existing system. First consumer pays for electricity and then use power for domestic and commercial purpose. Today's Energy Meter system is a complex and something headache process due to calculating and distributing bills. In Existing System, Meter readers have to go every home to home and take reading and paying bills is a post-paid system. To minimize complexity in calculating and distributing bills and misuse of electricity are the main purpose of this project .It is indirectly affect to avoid illegal activities like power theft.In our proposed system, there is use of GSM technology.With the help of GSM technology, consumer get warning alarm and messages on mobile about minimum amount and for next recharge. LCD shows total balance, remaining balance and used power.

Design and Assemble of Low Cost Prepaid Smart Card Energy Meter – A Novel Design

In India, presently distribution companies are collecting revenues from their consumers by metering and billing. The expenses for metering, billing, and collecting dues became complex as electricity is supplied to large number of consumers located in far-flung areas, resulted in high cost per unit. This may encourage consumers to fudge meter readings. To address these problems, distribution companies can opt prepaid smart card energy meter, which overcomes the whole problems associated with the present billing system and will make the consumer more conscious about usage electricity. This paper explores the design and assemble of smart card prepaid electricity meter system, which enables the consumer to buy required amount of energy and also provides information about their credit balance. A prototype of the system has been developed with the state-of-the-art digital and information technology and proven to be stable, reliable, tamper resistant, low cost, and easy maintenance. Electricity is a major source of energy in the world and used in every civilized country for domestic, commercial and industrial purpose. Recently owing to raise in number of new housing, commercial and industrial developments in India, the number of consumers of electricity have been increased in the network distribution. The monthly power bill for consumers is calculated from post-paid meter reading based on the electricity consumption. But the disadvantage of this system is that meter readers are needed to visit every door to door to read the meter for billing purposes. This is a tiresome, lengthy and error prone process. Moreover, there is a chance for consumers as well as meter readers to do the corruption. In post-paid system (1), the monthly bill sent to the consumer by mail in the beginning of the month and all the consumers often need to gather in a long queue to pay the bills. This procedure is tiresome and time consuming. In this paper, a prepaid metering (PPM) system (2) has been proposed. Each consumer has to install digitally designed prepaid electricity meter along with smart card in their home, office or industry. Based on the electricity utilization the credit will be deducted automatically from the smart card. When the credit goes below the threshold value, the meter gives warning icons and if credit reaches to zero the meter will automatically cut off the power supply. The consumer has to go to the vending station with the smart card and money to buy electricity. In the vending station, user can buy the credit to his smart card by paying the money. Then the consumer will insert the smart card to the meter and the meter will be recharged. In prepaid billing system, the consumer will be always conscious about the remaining credit and thus try to use electricity carefully and stop its misuse. Furthermore, in contrast with post-paid billing, the consumer can buy credit at any time in the month from the vending station.

Attitude of Consumer towards Prepaid Meters

A prepayment metering system is a system of “pay as you use” system of buying/selling electricity. It does not limit itself with prepayment meter only, rather it is a complete different system of revenue cycle management from “meter to cash” cycle. It gives a control over revenue for DISCOM and over electricity budget for consumer. Thus it is a win-win situation for both supplier and user. However, it has its own pros and cons as discussed in detail in this study. While most conventional method of metering is standard post paid system of metering, pre-paid has its own advantage for both supplier as well as consumer. However, these advantages are not without riders. Firstly the Prepaid system has a relatively high infrastructure cost. Then the ownership of prepaid meter to be with consumer or utility is still debatable. And merely replacing existing standard meters with prepaid meters will not help the cause since it requires: - Service Level Agreement with consumers, - Instilling a sense of trust in the system through proper education and training, - Designing convenience into the system for consumers as regards operation, recharge, information gathering etc. - Focus on customer delight by means of schemes like gift coupons of retail outlets. The biggest hurdle in prepayment is “Why should you pay in advance when you do not get your salary in advance”. The study conducted here answers this question in a convincing manner.