The use of radio frequency identification (RFID) allows utility companies to read meters from a distance. Thus a meter reader need not visit every customer on his route, but only get within a certain radius of each customer. In finding an optimal route – one that minimizes the distance the meter reader travels while servicing each customer on his route – this notion of only needing to be close ...

Meter reading is an important part of billing system for residential and commercial buildings. This often does not reflect the exact or true electricity consumption of such buildings, resulting in an inefficient bill mainly due to human errors. Thus, it is essential to have n efficient and effective system for this measurement purposes. This project is about the design and construction of a per...

In this paper we demonstrate a compact ready-to-use micro Coriolis mass flow meter. The full scale flow is 1 g/h (for water at a pressure drop < 1 bar). It has a zero stability of 2 mg/h and an accuracy of 0.5% reading for both liquids and gases. The temperature drift between 10 and 50 °C is below 1 mg/h/°C. The meter is robust, has standard fluidic connections and can be read out by means of a...

In this work we propose an automatic approach to detect and recognize text in natural images. Differently from other techniques which extract text from the whole image, our approach is trained to detect a particular area of interest where performs the search of text. Firstly we detect the region of interest and then we detect and segment the characters found. The proposed method may be used to ...

The concept of shaping domestic and commercial loads can be an effective way of controlling the load profile of a distribution company. Flat energy rates don’t provide incentives to customers to use power as would be optimal from a utility point of view. Price of energy should be fluctuating according to peak or off peak load condition. Smart meters can offer solution to this by allowing sophis...

This paper examines the acoustic and perceptual properties of iambic vs. trochaic meter in a large corpus of read German poetry. Psychoacoustic evidence of metrical grouping is not straightforwardly applicable to speech, due to the complex interaction of the involved acoustic parameters in prominence expression. It is possible that grouping effects in (poetic) speech are merely an artifact of l...

Internet of Things (IOT) aims at interfacing different gadgets to the internet web – encouraging human-machine and machine-machine connections offering superior security, console and effectiveness. The concept of IOT is utilized in this model, remote monitoring of energy meter which is intended to overcome the issues in existing Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) system. It spares tremendous human w...

Aiming at the demand of industrial instrument reading, this study proposes a method classification and reading recognition based on YOLOv3. Given that meters can be divided into pointer digital according to dial type, conducts for each two types meters. Firstly, YOLOv3 model is trained recognize detect meter classify values obtained classes. The uses Hough circle dial, extracts scale pointer, c...