Expenditure Management System (EMS) using single board computer (SBC)

Abstract

The Home Expenditure Management System (HEMS) endows with an expense framework for a family for developing and implementing a smart expenditure plan. It also provides a neat indication to allocate monies for setting priorities for the financial and budget plan. Till now different types expenditure management systems available in the market. All of their focus is to get timely expenditure accounts. Differentiations come on their features, either in software and/or hardware development. The development of EMS can be either fully software based and/or Hardware based. For hardware management and web-based home expenditure information monitoring features for which this research achieved significance from existing research. In hardware development a Single Board Computer (SBC) is used as a control unit and accessible via any Ethernet/wireless based network. Effective HEMS also enable the family from less-valued uses to more-valued ones when needs and priorities change without hardware. The software modules reside in the SBC for monitoring current and historic home expenditure management systems information. This research describes EMS called Expenditure Management System (EMS) design and implementation. EMS consists three modules. The Initial Module (IM), initiate all kernel and user level necessary modules; the Analysis Module (AM), analyze the input data either the withdraw amount is available or to find any database error, and then save data into embedded database inside SBC. The Monitoring Module (MM) is a web based application by which user able to explore expenditure data status through any web browser. The experimental shows that the EMS system is very much identical (less than 0.5% variation) results show that the memory and CPU usage rate is 2.4%; by EMS is exactly during execution on SBC regardless of its low CPU at 8.7% and 7.8% respectively speed and memory size.