期刊名称：International Journal of Engineering and Computer Science
印刷版ISSN：2319-7242
出版年度：2015
卷号：4
期号：1
页码：9853-9857
出版社：IJECS
摘要：There exist a billing process for meter reading of electricity, gas and water supplier companies, as well as to know theconsumption of particular vehicle by reading the meter. Now a days, electricity billing and meter reading are very complex tasks. Thecurrent method of billing process uses manual work of reading the meter, updating details of meter and sending bill to the customer. We aredeveloping the technology that comprises android application as well as web application to get reading, updating information into serverand informing consumers about electricity consumption units and bill amount. To make meter reading task automatic android applicationis used to get the readings from the meter by only capturing the image of the meter and then performing the OCR i.e. ”optical characterrecognition” technique on that image in android app. The result of OCR is meter readings extracted from the captured image and then sendto the server. With the help of web application customer can receive mail regarding the bill at the instant the image is accepted at the serverand then customer can view his bill. New features can also be added that will reduce workload on companies as well as their workers.
关键词：Meter; Optical Character Recognition; Android mobile
