In recent years, lane detection has become one of the most important factors in the progress
of intelligent vehicles. To deal with the challenging problem of low detection precision and …

Pointer meters are extensively employed in power, chemical, automotive, and other modern
production processes. To improve the accuracy and robustness of the existing reading …

Reading power equipment meters often requires loads of manpower, which is a trivial,
repetitive, and error-prone task. While conventional automated recognition methods using …

The evolution of applications in telecommunication, network, computing, and embedded
systems has led to the emergence of the Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence. The …

Accurate reading of a pointer meter is a crucial task in complex environments, such as
substations, the military and aerospace. Current recognition algorithms are mainly used to …

Many tasks that require a large workforce are automated. In many areas of the world, the
consumption of utilities, such as electricity, gas and water, is monitored by meters that need …

Existing approaches for image-based Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) have been evaluated
on images captured in well-controlled scenarios. However, real-world meter reading …

Highlights•LoRaWAN and GPS allow affordable monitoring systems for centre pivot
irrigation.•Chatbots and voice assistants help to avoid the digital divide.•Edge Computing …

The current manual reading of substation pointer meters wastes human resources, and
existing algorithms have limitations in accuracy and robustness for detecting various pointer …

The objective of this paper is to automatically read any circular single pointer analogue
gauge in real-time on mobile phone. We make the following contributions:(i) we show how to …