Research on Remote Meter Automatic Reading Based on Computer Vision

A novel method is put forward, which the power meter can be read based on compute vision, and the architecture of remote meter auto reading system is designed. Different with the normal automatic meter reading system that must obtain the value from digital communication interface, the new method recognizes the meter reading utilizing the computer vision technique, it is a kind of non-contact measurement. In the meter automatic reading, the computer vision discrimination, incorporate human´s ability of visual and apprehensive models. Not only the digital display power meter can be read, but also the direct-reading instrument can be fetched. In this paper, the scheme of remote automatic reading is introduced, the local meter reading information of distributed substation can be transmitted to center using computer network and then the pretreatment, segmentation and pattern matching, are detailed description in the meter image recognition process. Via energy meter automatic recognition experiment, the results based computer vision is accurate enough to monitor the remote substation running parameters