This code is depreciated and will not be maintained any more!

water-meter-system-complete

Update 04.09.2020: There is an update version available, which is more compact on the hardware side and much easier from software side, because it is an all in one device. It does not need a docker container for image analysis any more as everything, including a web based configuration server is running on the ESP32

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

Hardware: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4573481

This repository describes a readout of an analog water meter with the help of a camera and image processing, including neural network processing to extract the values. The interface is a local HTTP-server, that takes an image as input, processes it and gives as an output the readout of the water meter counter, including the subdigits.

Although the server can be installed manually in a windows as well as an Linux system, it is strongly recommended to use the provided docker containers. The installation is due to the use of image processing (OpenCV, ...) and Neural Network Systems (Tensorflow) not really straight forward and I needed a lot of try and error.

Therefore I have decided to capsule the server in a docker container.

This is available for an Intel based System (e.g. Synology Docker) as well as an Raspberry PI Version.

Docker-Versions

Running docker

Choose for the fitting docker tag and run the server with the following parameters:

sudo docker run -p 3000:3000 --mount type=bind,source=/PATH_TO_LOCAL_CONFIG,target=/config --mount type=bind,source=/PATH_TO_LOCAL_LOG,target=/log jomjol/wasserzaehler:DOCKER_TAG

Paramters

The config and the log directory can be empty at the very first start. They will be loaded with a default configuratio, that can be modified afterwards.

Changelog - lastest version

Attention: 6.1.1 is the last version, with h5-files support. Future versions will only support h5-files!!!

6.1.1 (2020-04-23)

• Update CNN-Files to v6.0.0, v6.0.1

6.1.0 (2020-04-17)

• MinImageSize configuration parameters added. This will detect damaged images. (Extension from Zwer2k)

6.0.0 (2020-03-16)

• Update Tensorflow to v2.1 - downgrade Python to v3.6 (to enable compiling for Synology (w/o AVX2))

Full Changelog

The overall system with description of the single steps is described here: https://github.com/jomjol/water-meter-measurement-system

A graphical overview about the steps is shown in the following flow:

Setup

To run the Python code copy the whole code directory including subdirectory.

Path are relative, so it should run immediately with the following command:

• pip install requirements.txt
• python wasserzaehler.py

Configuration

The configuration is stored in the subdirectory config. In the Ini-file the CNN-Network to be loaded is listed. Configuration of the neural network (*.h5) itself is stored in the subdirectory neuralnets. Detailed information on config.ini see Config_Description.md

Consistency Check

There is a consistency check of the readout value implemented. Prequesite for this check is a storage of the last full readout (without "N"), which can be achieved by the parameter "usePreValue".

Running the server

The server is listening to port 3000 and accepts requests in the following syntac:

• http://server-ip:3000/wasserzaehler.html

Without any parameter and correct setting in the CONFIG.INI the server responses with an readout of the water meter:

The output of the server are 3 numbers, separated by a tabulator.

Remark

If a digit cannot be recognized, e.g. because it is half between 2 digits, then instead of the number a "N" is written at the corresponding position. In this case a direct conversion to a number will not work. Additional information (e.g. last valid full reading) needs to be used to extrapolate the missing digit (see below).

Optional parameters

• http://server-ip:3000/wasserzaehler.html?url=http://picture-server/image.jpg&full
• http://server-ip:3000/wasserzaehler.html?usePreValue
• http://server-ip:3000/wasserzaehler.html?single

The paramaters can be combined arbitrary.

Example with parameter full:

Additional Settings

• http://server-ip:3000/roi.html

The page roi.html return the image including the ROIs visible. This is usefull to check for correct setting:

• http://server-ip:3000/setPreValue.html?value=401.57

The page setPreValue.html stores the number given in the parameter value to initiate the internal storage of a valid data. This can be used, in case the digital counter is between two number and cannot be readout uniquely at the moment.

• http://server-ip:3000/version.html

The page version.html returns a version number.