Title :
Overview of a system AMR based in computational Vision and Wireless sensor network
Author :
Garay, Jorge R B ; Kofuji, Sergio T. ; Tiba, Tadayoshi
Author_Institution :
Integrated Syst. Lab., Univ. of Sao Paulo (USP), Sao Paulo, Brazil
Abstract :
This paper presents the proposal of integrating an Automatic Meter Reading System (AMR) with Computer Vision and Wireless Communication. The AMR system reads the numeral meter through a video micro-camera, process the collected image using an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) module embedded in the sensor node. The results are sent through ZigBee wireless links to the center of management, in which a mesh topology is used for communication.
Keywords :
automatic meter reading; computer vision; optical character recognition; personal area networks; wireless sensor networks; ZigBee wireless links; automatic meter reading system; computational vision; computer vision; mesh topology; optical character recognition module; sensor node; video microcamera; wireless communication; wireless sensor network; Automatic meter reading; Character recognition; Computer networks; Computer vision; Image sensors; Optical character recognition software; Optical sensors; Proposals; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; AMR; Mesh topology; OCR; Visual Sensor Networks; ZigBee;
Conference_Titel :
Communications, 2009. LATINCOM '09. IEEE Latin-American Conference on
Conference_Location :
Medellin
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4387-1
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4388-8
DOI :
10.1109/LATINCOM.2009.5305009
