Reading of Energy Meter based on Image Processing Technology

The digital technology, the wireless communication, and the computer systems have drastically changed the Electric meter generation from Traditional Meter to Automatic Meter. The differences is in how to collect and process information, and traditional meter reading has been long used, and it is still one of the most common ways for meter reading. This method, however, has their disadvantages which are the result of human basis reading method that uses. If the reading problem is solved by adding a simple equipment which makes it automatic it will be still useful method of reading. In this paper it is described a prototype for Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) system that uses a Traditional meter, ZigBee modules, and a serial camera unit. This camera will take the photo of meter reading and transmit it to the server PC through Zig-Bee, where that image undergoes segmentation, recognition process and reading is get separated which is further used for preparing bill.