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 ...

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 technology issue has caused Plano’s entire water meter system to collapse. The problem will cost the city hundreds of thousands of dollars to pay for staff to manually read water meters for ...

The City of Pittsburg is moving to automated water meter readings but tells residents there may be some bill estimating while ...

The City of Pittsburg is in the process of transitioning to automated water meters. The city’s current equipment used to ...