Metering information collection

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9104917-B2
Application number	US-201313929264-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 27, 2013
Priority date	Jun 27, 2013
Publication date	Aug 11, 2015
Grant date	Aug 11, 2015

Abstract

A computing device configured to gather utility metering information. In embodiments, the computing device may comprise a transceiver and an image processing module. The image processing module may be coupled to the transceiver and configured to receive an image utilizing the transceiver. The image may include one or more utility meters. The image processing module may be further configured to extract metering information from the one or more utility meters of the image and transmit this metering information to a utility provider associated with the utility meter Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A device comprising:
a transceiver configured to exchange data over a data connection with a utility meter accessory associated with utility meters for a plurality of utility service providers; and
one or more computing processors coupled to the transceiver, wherein the one or more computing processors are configured to:
receive, from the utility meter accessory, an image of the utility meters;
process the image of the utility meters to extract, from th…

Assignees

• Verizon Patent & Licensing Inc

Inventors

• Kumar Anil

Classifications

• G06K9/00771 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06V2201/02

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06V20/62

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06V20/52 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic