Once a month, a city employee walks every neighborhood in Hutchinson “reading” water meters collecting the data that translates into the monthly water/sewer bill. That could become a thing of ...

His solution was to read data from the utility meter using RTL-SDR to fill in the blanks. The results are good so far, and there’s no reason similar readings for gas and water can’t also be done.

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 ...