Web based Fleet Management System

Abstract

Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) is the national power utility and is a statutory body established by the Act Number 17 of 1969, with reflecting a monopoly in electricity power sector in Sri Lanka. CEB core business processes include power generation, transmission, distribution and retailing. CEB operates with nearly 6.1 million customers as of 2016 and responsible for provide electricity continuously to the customers without any issues. At present, the management and monitoring of the vehicles in CEB is done manually. Thus problems such as data duplication, lack of integrity, data inconsistency and missing data has become a major problem. To overcome the above mentioned problems web based system was implemented. Requirements were gathered referring web resources, onsite observation and conducting interviews with CEB management and staff members. To enhance the more features similar systems were used. Based on the above facts gathering techniques, users of the system were identified. The entire system was divided as Vehicle Registration Management, Vehicle Allocation, Booking Details, Running & Fuel Management, Vehicle Management and Report Generation. This was completely replaced by the current manual system and provided an advanced closed monitoring and proper management of vehicles. The three-tier architecture with XAMPP, MySQL workbench 6.0 community edition and .NET technology were used to develop this system. The object oriented concept was used to draw use case diagrams, sequence diagrams, class diagrams, etc. Microsoft Visio 2013 were used as the modeling software at the analyzing and designing stage of the project. After preparing a test plan, testing was initiated. Unit test was developed in the implementation for the solution and further solution was done against test cases. Acceptance testing was carried out after implementing the onsite. And questionnaire was given to the selected users in the evaluation. The aim of the project is to provide a web based Fleet Management System (FMS) to increase efficiency and productivity of the vehicle management activities in a smooth manner in CEB.