Aplikasi Biling Hotspot Internet Prabayar Menggunakan SMS Autoresponder

Abstract

Community needs to access the Internet has increased along with increasing community needs for information. Ease of accessing the Internet in open place or public area is an advantage for a commercial Internet service providers such as Internet cafes, therefore it is required a system to calculate the cost of Internet use that are reliable and can accommodate those needs. Conventional Internet access billing system, generally require the installation on the client and the adjustment back to the operating system used by the client and the use of internet access should always be supervised by the operator, making it less flexible to be implemented in public areas using hotpsot. By making some modifications to the open source captive portal software NoCat and Gammu SMS Gateway it can produce an Internet hotspot billing application that uses Web-based prepaid payment mechanism through the deposit balance. The design of Internet applications billing hospot using SMS autoresponder will use modeling diagrams UML (Unified Modeling Language) to model the processes of the system being designed. These processes are then used to determine the needs of the system to be built. With an Internet hotspot prepaid billing application using SMS autoresponder is expected to enhance the user experience to access the Internet in public areas, and users can freely use their respective computer devices. Keywords : Internet, hotpot, biling, SMS autoresponder