Title :
Improving management of utilities payment with web-based solution
Author :
Popa, Sorin ; Prostean, Gabriela Ioana
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Manage. in Production & Transp., “Politeh.” Univ. of Bucharest, Timisoara, Romania
Abstract :
The payment of the utilities: gas, electricity, water, mobile and fixed phones, internet, TV, insurance, local taxes, etc. benefits by multiple solutions. These solutions split in two categories: IT based (online) payment methods and outside payments methods, at different pay points. This research presents a solution, web-based and mobile based, for paying and managing the utilities that involves an online method which has an novel concept. This method is transparent to the users and involves almost zero time spent for payments and smaller costs generated by commissions than in other existing payment methods.
Keywords :
Internet; electronic money; mobile computing; mobile radio; IT based online payment methods; Internet; TV; Web-based solution; electricity; fixed phones; gas; insurance; local taxes; mobile based solution; mobile phones; outside payments methods; pay points; utilities payment management; water; Electricity; Finance; Informatics; Internet; Mobile communication; TV; Telephony;
Conference_Titel :
Applied Computational Intelligence and Informatics (SACI), 2013 IEEE 8th International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Timisoara
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-6397-6
DOI :
10.1109/SACI.2013.6608991