Abstract: Manual meter reading systems using electromechanical meters are installed within the premises of residential or commercial consumers and information about the units of consumption of electricity are collected on a monthly basis. However, this present convention has the following disadvantages: Manpower must be hired to go from household to read energy consumption, record data and communicate with a receiving module. Use of manual meters could turn to meter reading mistakes and errors of leakage. Our project aims the recreation of this energy metering system in MATLAB and observes the changes in consumption of energy units. This type of a system will not only help in reducing the manpower but also help the consumer to keep a track of the units consumed.

Keywords: Character recognition, Image processing, MATLAB

| DOI: 10.17148/IJIREEICE.2021.9629