ESP32-Cam on your water meter with "AI-on-the-edge" -- also for gas and power meters
Channel: MakerMeik
Date: 2021-05-01

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Note: My shown kromschroeder gas meter has a recess in which magnetic pulses can be read with a reed switch. These are given at each zero crossing of the second decimal place of the counter. This would certainly have been the simpler approach.

Links:

https://github.com/jomjol/AI-on-the-edge-device/

3D-Models:
https://www.printables.com/de/social/194580-makermeik/models
https://www.printables.com/de/model/109982-gas-meter-ai-on-the-edge
https://www.printables.com/de/model/109962-electricity-meter-ai-on-the-edge
https://www.printables.com/de/model/109960-water-meter-ai-on-the-edge

https://www.thingiverse.com/makermeik/

0:00 Intro
0:50 Requirements
1:39 3D-Model and camera focus
3:05 Firmware installation
4:21 Wiring of the ESP32-cam
6:25 Hardware modification

9:44 Installation on the water meter
10:43 Initial setup

13:07 MQTT, Node-Red, Grafana, ...

14:00 Outro