Digitisation of Conventional Water Meters Using Automated Number Recognition
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It is desired to enhance traditional mechanical water meters with automatic meter reading (AMR) in the era of Internet of Things (IoT), In this paper, we propose and implement an add-on module using optical character recognition (OCR) to achieve that. The proposed module will be attached to a conventional mechanical water meter, capture and translate the register readings into plain text, which can be sent wirelessly to a database server. In addition, we propose a novel light-weight optical character recognition algorithm and test it in a prototype with embedded digital system. Experimental results show that the recognition accuracy can be as high as 98.1%, which indicates a promising candidate technology for AMR to revolutionise water meters. Finally, this technique can be applied to other mechanical meters with analogue number displays, paving the way for ubiquitous IoT.Description
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TENCON 2021 - 2021 IEEE Region 10 Conference (TENCON), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TENCON54134.2021.9707425
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