Industrial Meter Reading
Meter reading is an extremely important task that is widely used in real life . Many meter readings require manual periodic inspection and recording of the meter readings to reflect whether the device is operating safely. Due to the various shapes, scales, pointers, and characters of the meter, and the existence of different equipment locations, such as high-voltage equipment in substations, it is difficult for regular manual inspections to be carried out.
At present, traditional meters with scales and pointers are still commonly used in the substation environment. In the actual application environment, the traditional manual counting not only involves many human factors, but also is easily disturbed by the environment and has the danger of an electric shock. With the gradual promotion of unattended substations, inspection robots or UAVs equipped with automatic meter identification technology have been widely used. Therefore, the realisation of intelligent reading of meters by the computer vision method has become a research hotspot.
- Automatic Meter Reading from UAV Inspection Photos in the Substation by Combining YOLOv5s and DeeplabV3+, 2022.