XMLVend is a South African developed, open interface standard, which facilitates the sale of prepaid
electricity
Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and motion of matter possessing an electric charge. Electricity is related to magnetism, both being part of the phenomenon of electromagnetism, as described by Maxwel ...
credit between electricity
utilities
A public utility company (usually just utility) is an organization that maintains the infrastructure for a public service (often also providing a service using that infrastructure). Public utilities are subject to forms of public control and r ...
and
clients. It is an application of
web service
A web service (WS) is either:
* a service offered by an electronic device to another electronic device, communicating with each other via the Internet, or
* a server running on a computer device, listening for requests at a particular port over a n ...
s to facilitate trade between various types of devices and a utility prepayment vending server.
This standard is already being introduced and used in prepaid water.
External links
Eskom XMLVend implementation websiteEskom Technical Documents
Eskom PrepaymentJohannesburg Water
Web services
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