jomjol / AI-on-the-edge-device

Easy to use device for connecting "old" measuring units (water, power, gas, ...) to the digital world
https://jomjol.github.io/AI-on-the-edge-device-docs/
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New water meter can't be read reliably #3108

Closed garciaargos closed 2 weeks ago

garciaargos commented 3 weeks ago

Issue

I'm not sure how to classify this, so I chose "blank form". Today we got our water meter replaced, with one of those that can be made "smart" by adding an impulse meter. And it's so poorly designed that I can't even see the 3rd analogue digit properly by looking at it. In the image below you can see what I mean.

Obviously, the AI-on-the-edge has a hard time with it. It seems it even gets the image mirrored, so I turned on anti-CW for that digit. But I still get a lot of errors due to this digit.

Perhaps there is a way to make the analogue digits less relevant if the recognition is not so good? Or can we ignore some digits?

In the end, the whole image is a big mess in the analogue digits area, because the way the transparent part is made deforms the image, so I'm not sure any image recognition is going to work with this.

Time to spend money on the impulse meter? Is this usable for AI-on-the-edge? Or do I complain to the Wasserwerk because I can't even read it properly with my bare eyes?

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