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In a number of countries reading your monthly electric bills is still done manually. If a digital photograph could be taken of your electric metres transmitted to office computers which then read and give a print out of monthly bill
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If you're looking for a way to eliminate the meter-reader, I'd say baked: |
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There are already a number of products on the market that communicate directly with each meter by way of the power line and send usage back to the electric company for billing. |
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Retrofitting a meter with a digital camera, and using automatic interpreting software is too fragile and open to fraud (paste a photoshopped picture of the meter over the real one and save money). |
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Karamchand: My desi bhai, looks like you've been eating way too many carrots ... |
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