The latest solution comes courtesy of [Keilin Bickar], who’s using the ESP8266 and a serial TTL camera module to read the characters from the LCD of his water meter. With a 3D printed enclosure ...

A frequent example that appears in projects on Hackaday is the reading of utility meters, and in that arena [jomjol] has a very neat solution involving an ESP32 camera module and a software neural ...

A lot of time and money is consumed each month manually reading 7,000 electric meters and 5,300 natural gas meters for Hutchinson Utilities Commission. But the savings it can eventually reap ...

UK residents are being given a one-day notice to take an energy meter reading before bills rise nationwide. This follows Ofgem's new price cap, set to be implemented on January 1, which will ...

And while he couldn’t speak about the Schroyers’ particular issue, he said the new meters are very accurate at reading usage, with a very low failure rate. “These meters have been found to ...

A MAJOR energy supplier is urging 65,000 customers to take action to avoid being cut off within months. Households with outdated Radio Teleswitch Service (RTS) meters must switch ...

In this week’s Money Matters column, Wrekin’s debt and energy manager Dan Bebbington discusses some of the benefits of ...

Uswitch revealed that 14% of people needing to submit meter readings were unsure how to do so, while 12% didn't know where their meter was located. Households are encouraged to contact their ...