Talk:Automatic meter reading

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Utilitysupplies 21:16, 28 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

There seem to be a lot of external links added to the page being added without any useful contributions added to the actual article content. I open for discussion that instead of this article becoming a link farm, that links be limited to exclude general external links to commercial sites. The main link to the AMRA trade associtaion will have information on most companies in the industry. I propose that only links to unbiased artilcles or useful information be permitted. Links to home pages or sales related information should be eliminated. Any discussion on this suggestion? Utilitysupplies 22:57, 16 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, no discussion or suggestions on links, so I'm deleting all external links that are not non-profit or not strictly informational. Utilitysupplies 02:16, 13 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

What is AMI?[edit]

AMI is introduced as a term but not defined. Mre5765 14:22, 5 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes it is. Search for AMI. (Advanced Metering Infrastructure פשוט pashute ♫ (talk) 12:54, 23 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I might suggest that AMR and AMI would be merged together as one article instead of separate articles. In the electrical industry they are used somewhat interchangeably, but generally speaking we just say AMI. AMR is defunct and was a predecessor to AMI. ThoHug (talk) 15:40, 23 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

OCR and conversion of old meters[edit]

How come there is no mention of OCR and digit recognition in conversion of old meters using optics and digital CCD cameras? Could anybody please add this information? פשוט pashute ♫ (talk) 12:56, 23 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Infrared port[edit]

What's the name for the standard that describes the infrared port? --Wtshymanski (talk) 14:51, 16 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Power source?[edit]

How are the meters powered? Obviously, electricity meters have a ready source of power, but what about gas and water? Isidore (talk) 12:40, 20 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Possible answer to the two questions above[edit]

I'm on a patent filed in 1995/97 (granted in 2001) that describes these aspects a bit: http://www.google.com/patents/US6208266 In our case, we used Li-SOCl2 cells (D sized 16ah). We had devices on various non-machine readable Badger and Kent meters with some of the first CMOS imagers from FUGA. We'd shoot a reference image, store it locally on our endpoint device, and then just send the changed/diff pixels to an OCR engine. We used 900MHz wireless custom mesh networks that talked to a Remote Management Processor (RMP) that would upload to an internet portal where the OCR engines had copies of the reference image. Not sure who maintains this page but sort of an IoT of it's time. I'd add it but not sure if it'd be a violation of NPOV... Wamnet (talk) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wamnet (talk • contribs) 21:02, 4 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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