Essays about: "Analogue meters"

Found 2 essays containing the words Analogue meters.

1. 1. Retrofitting analogue meters with smart devices : A feasibility study of local OCR processes on an energy critical driven system

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   Author : Joel Andreasson; Elin Ehrenbåge; [2023]
   Keywords : Analogue meters; Energy efficiency; Internet of Things IoT ; Optical Character Recognition OCR ; Sum of Absolute Differences SAD ; Template matching;

   Abstract : Internet of Things (IoT) are becoming increasingly popular replacements for their analogue counterparts. However, there is still demand to keep analogue equipment that is already installed, while also having automated monitoring of the equipment, such as analogue water meters. READ MORE

3. 2. Analogue meters in a digital world : Minimizing data size when offloading OCR processes

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   Author : Robin Davidsson; Fredrik Sjölander; [2022]
   Keywords : Optical Character Recognition; OCR; Offloading; Energy efficiency; Compression; Google Cloud Vision; Water meters; Internet of Things; IoT; Cloud;

   Abstract : Introduction: Instead of replacing existing analogue water meters with Internet of Things (IoT) connected substitutes, an alternative would be to attach an IoT connected module to the analogue water meter that optically reads the meter value using Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Such a module would need to be battery-powered given that access to the electrical grid is typically limited near water meters. READ MORE