Robust monitoring gauges
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1. An apparatus for facilitating reading a gauge, from an edge of a network, the apparatus comprising:
- networking circuitry to couple a plurality of client devices to the network, from the edge of the network; and
one or more processors and a non-transitory computer-readable medium that stores instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the apparatus to;
receive, from an Internet-of-things (IoT) camera, a digital image of the gauge, with the gauge having an analog value indicator and plural gauge value characters, and being proximally located to the IoT camera;
form an indicator representation corresponding to the analog value indicator and determine the plural gauge value characters;
determine from the indicator representation and one or more of the gauge value characters an indicated gauge value; and
transmit the indicated gauge value to a remote gauge value recipient via the network;
wherein the digital image includes initial image elements with a range of image values and the apparatus is further caused to generate from the digital image a binary image with image elements of first and second states, wherein to generate the binary image includes to apply plural thresholds to the image values of the initial image elements to identify the image elements of the first and second states.
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Methods, systems, and storage media for robust monitoring a gauge are disclosed herein. In an embodiment, a digital image of a gauge may be received to identify an analog value indicator of the gauge and to form an indicator representation corresponding to the analog value indicator. Robust optical character recognition and image filter may provide enhanced gauge reading and/or monitoring. Other embodiments may be disclosed and/or claimed.
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1. An apparatus for facilitating reading a gauge, from an edge of a network, the apparatus comprising:
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networking circuitry to couple a plurality of client devices to the network, from the edge of the network; and one or more processors and a non-transitory computer-readable medium that stores instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the apparatus to; receive, from an Internet-of-things (IoT) camera, a digital image of the gauge, with the gauge having an analog value indicator and plural gauge value characters, and being proximally located to the IoT camera; form an indicator representation corresponding to the analog value indicator and determine the plural gauge value characters; determine from the indicator representation and one or more of the gauge value characters an indicated gauge value; and transmit the indicated gauge value to a remote gauge value recipient via the network; wherein the digital image includes initial image elements with a range of image values and the apparatus is further caused to generate from the digital image a binary image with image elements of first and second states, wherein to generate the binary image includes to apply plural thresholds to the image values of the initial image elements to identify the image elements of the first and second states. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A method for facilitating reading of a gauge, from an edge of a network, the method comprising:
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receiving, by a networking device disposed at the edge of the network, from an IoT camera, a digital image of a gauge having an analog value indicator and plural gauge value characters, and being disposed proximally to the IoT camera; forming, by the networking device, an indicator representation corresponding to the analog value indicator; determining, by the networking device, the plural gauge value characters from the digital image; determining, by the networking device, from the indicator representation and one or more of the gauge value characters an indicated gauge value; and transmitting, by the networking device, the indicated gauge value to a remote gauge value recipient, via the network; wherein the digital image includes initial image elements with a range of image values and the method further includes generating, by the networking device, from the digital image, a binary image with image elements of first and second states, wherein generating the binary image includes applying plural thresholds to the image values of the initial image elements to identify the image elements of the first and second states. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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