ANDROID BASED METER READING USING OCR

Abstract

The current procedure of meter reading & generating bills are complex tasks of
Power distribution company (PDC). In followed manual process, meter reader captures
images. Store all the captured images and after capturing, all images are submitted to the
PDC. PDC generate bill for each image then again going home to home that bill is hand over
to customer .This process take 10-15 days, which is complex and time consuming. We are
supposing the alternate system which reduces the manual work, the system includes
Android application is used to simply capture the image and immediately send to the PDC
server, at server side after receiving that meter image, image processing is done for getting
meter number & meter reading. Then bill calculation is done at server side. After that,
calculated bill is send to the customer via e-mail or message. This process reduces workload
of employee and company also.