A Review: AUTOMATIC METER READING USING IMAGE PROCESSING

ABSTRACT Traditional meter reading for an electricity use and billing is done by electricity board workers from home to home. It requires large number of workers. Human operator billing are lead to error while reading data and making data entry. There are difficulties while accessing indoor meters and meters in rural areas. Automatic meter reading is the method of automatically collecting reading from electric meter and transmitting that readings to server for billing, troubleshooting and analyzing. Here processing flow will capture the image by using camera, captured image is pre-processed and characters are recognized by processor using contour algorithm, billing is done by taking difference between two readings of consecutive months and send it to the respective server for documentation using wireless technology.