Smart Vending Anywhere System Solution

29 Pages·2013·19.29 MB·English

Smart Vending Anywhere System Solution

For

UTILITY COMPANY

SHENZHEN INHEMETER CO., LTD
Smart Vending Anywhere System Solution

CONTENTS

1. System Introduction ................................................................................................... 3
1.1 Smart Vending System Diagram ................................................................................... 3
1.2 Vending Solution .............................................................................................................. 3
1.3 System Structure ............................................................................................................. 4
2. Smart Vending Anywhere (SMARTvend) ................................................................. 4
2.1 System Introduction ............................................................................................................ 4
2.2 System Features .................................................................................................................. 5
2.3 System Server ...................................................................................................................... 5
2.4 Vending Station ................................................................................................................... 6
2.5 Third Party Data Interface ................................................................................................... 8
2.6 Compatibility and Expansibility ........................................................................................... 9
2.7 Load bearing Capacity ....................................................................................................... 10
2.8 Transaction capacity .......................................................................................................... 10
2.9 Report Export .................................................................................................................... 11
2.10 The 2nd development interface ....................................................................................... 12
3. Smart Vending Agent (SMARTagent) ..................................................................... 13
3.1 System Introduction .......................................................................................................... 13
3.2 System Features ................................................................................................................ 14
3.3 Third Party Agent .............................................................................................................. 14
3.4 Real Time Transaction Inquiry ........................................................................................... 15
3.5 Data Exchange Interface .................................................................................................... 15
4. Smart Messager Anywhere (SMARTmessager) .................................................... 17
4.1 System Introduction .......................................................................................................... 17
4.2 System Features ................................................................................................................ 18
4.3 SMS Vending...................................................................................................................... 18
4.4 Information Exchange Interface ........................................................................................ 19
4.5 Support Multi Information Gateway ................................................................................. 19
4.6 The 2nd Development Interface ......................................................................................... 20
4.7 Application Architecture for Development ....................................................................... 20
5. Smart Meter Viewer (SMARTview) .......................................................................... 20
5.1 System Overview ............................................................................................................... 20
5.2 System Features ................................................................................................................ 22
5.3 Software Platform Requirements ...................................................................................... 23
6. Smart Vending System Architecture ...................................................................... 23
6.1 System Planning ................................................................................................................ 23
6.2 Data Center Planning......................................................................................................... 24
7. Site Implementation ................................................................................................. 25
7.1 Overview ........................................................................................................................... 25
7.2 Training Person .................................................................................................................. 25
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7.3 Software Implementation Procedure ................................................................................ 25
7.4 Software Maintenance ...................................................................................................... 27

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1. System Introduction
1.1 Smart Vending System Diagram

1.2 Vending Solution

The Solar Home System (SHS) is consisted of Solar Panel, Solar Charge Controller,
Battery, DC/AC Inverter, and Prepayment Controller System including Controller & Timer
Unit (CTU), Customer Interface Unit (CIU) and Vending Management System.

Solution Features:

 Clear and user friendly working status inquiry
 Efficient electric charging control and invert
 High quality system components and optimized system design, highly reliable system
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1.3 System Structure
INHEMETER smart vending system includes Smart Vending Anywhere（SMARTvend）、
Smart Vending Agent(SMARTagent)、Smart Messager Anywhere(SMARTmessager)、
Smart Meter Viewer(SMARTview). The picture below shows the relation between them.

SMARTvend SMARTagent

SMARTview SMARTmessager

2. Smart Vending Anywhere (SMARTvend)
2.1 System Introduction
SMARTvend is the core sub-system of INHEMETER smart vending system. SMARTvend
is introduced after years’ experience of developing IC card prepayment energy meter
vending system, keypad prepayment energy meter vending system and comprehensive
automatic meter reading system. It adopts B/S and C/S mixing network construction and
achieve prepayment & post-payment as well as vending function under network data’s
centralized management. Meanwhile, it also provide management function for other
business like debts, fees, and warehouse management.
Provide interface for the third party system: like the third party agent system
(SMARTagent) and power company’s corresponding financial system as well as business
system.

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2.2 System Features
 Web-based system structure mode
 Multi-method Billing, be compatible with various billing solutions through setting
billing module.
 Multi-station or single station management for vending stations; Vending stations
can be centralized for control and vending authorization.
 Support many kinds of prepayment energy meter including IC card prepayment
energy meter and all STS certified keypad prepayment energy meter
 Support post-payment meter’s data management and billing
 Multi-level management mode and digital certified authentication system to ensure
system security.
 Users are given rights according to position that can be done to each control point
of each module.
 Built-in third party data exchange port and it can communicate with external
system including client management system, marketing system, automatic meter
reading system, etc.
 Multiple security modules on-line service: to meet the large volume of customers
purchasing power at the same time, SMARTvend takes multiple security modules
simultaneously on-line to balance power vending load, and solve a
bottleneck—system cannot generate many TOKENs simultaneously and
improving the performance of the system fully.
 Multi-platform supporting: SMARTvend can operate in Unix, Linux, Windows
platform.
 Multi-database supporting
 SMARTvend is certified by STS association, conforming to standards and
specification of IEC 62055-41、NRS 009-2-1:1998、NRS 009-2-2:1995、NRS
009-6-10、ISO 8583、NRS 049.
2.3 System Server
 Database Server: used for storage of business data.
 Web Server: used for providing HTTP service and make vending stations be
connected with the third party.
 Data Exchange Server: maintaining multi-layer system data exchange and the third
party’s vending system’s operation.
 Affair Handling Server: for affair handling, security module management, TOKEN
generation and data encryption, decryption etc;
 Report server: used to generate all kinds of reports and analyze reports in the
background

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Note: Above-mentioned server application can be grouped according to customer
demand and development condition; all service function operated in one server is
supported as well.
2.4 Vending Station
SMARTvend supports internet vending, and also develop a vending desktop client to
satisfy the area with slow internet speed. With this, vending station just need basic official
equipment like computer, bill printer, card reader) as well as slow network service to
achieve normal vending.

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To meet the vending demands of some specific area with poor network, we recommend
distributed off-line vending mode as picture below:

Instruction:
Green arrow: good network
Red arrow: can’t purchase electricity normally
Yellow communication channel: not real-time data transfer

 Each DC and SC has independent data base and vending security module, VS
uses SC’s data base and security module through direct connection with
network.
 When users recharge through SMS, internet, mobile POS and ATM, vending
system access DC data base directly and generate vending TOKENs for users.
While usually, users purchase electricity through the nearest vending station(VS).
VS1 exchange date with upper level SC1 directly through on-line network
connection, and generate TOKENs for users through SC1’s security module.
When network between VS4 and SC1 disconnects, users still can purchase
normally with VS1, VS2, VS3.
 Off-line connection between SC and DC: Exchange Data interface(EDI) and
communication like PSTN、GPRS、Ethernet、Internet etc. can be used to transfer
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data. If Network between DC and SC is good, SC’s EDI client –side service
program will connect DC’s service program directly, and upload SC’s latest
vending records as well as using contract records to DC through DC’s
server-side. Meanwhile, SC’s EDI client-side program will download each SC to
DC through DC’s EDI server-side, analyse each records and update to SC’s data
base. This real-time on-line data exchange achieves fictitious on-line connection.
And with this, It achieves data transfer between SC and DC as well as the data
share between SC and VS.
 If network between DC and SC disconnects, SC’s EDI client-side service
program can’t connect with DC’s EDI server-side, and can’t achieve data transfer.
But DC and SC have independent data base so as to assure users’ daily
purchase. If network recovers, EDI client-side service program will connect to
DC’s EDI server-side automatically, and upload native vending records and
download server-side’s latest using contract records, so as to finish off-line data
transfer and achieve off-line data share.

When the finish of data transfer between DC and SC through EDI service, user can
purchase at any VS or SC, or through on-line ways like internet, SMS, ATM etc. which
called the real distributed off-line vending function.

2.5 Third Party Data Interface
The third party’s data interface is used for external system like the third party agent
system (SMARTagent), customer service system, marketing system, or AMR system’s
data exchange. All data related to security needs digital certificates. All access needs
customer’s authentication and is limited by user’s rights. All data when transfer is encoded
and encrypted.

Digital Certificates
Third-Part System
SMARTvend Encode/Decode
SMARTagent
User Authorization
SMARTview
Accounting system
CallCenter

…..

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2.6 Compatibility and Expansibility
SMARTvend adopts unified power vending and revenue collection method, can be
compatible with IC card prepayment energy meter, STS keypad prepayment energy meter,
post-payment energy meter with several remote communication ways as well as STS
keypad energy meter produced by different manufacturers. Meanwhile, it makes
SMARTvend be compatible with prepayment energy / water / hot water / gas meter with
different types and different protocols through system third party’s extended interface
base.

Prepayment receipt
Post-payment receipt

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