Reading the meter from a photo

Request: „Record the meter reading.“

1. Take the meter photo and read the value twice via image recognition.
2. Sanity-check against last year's value — an impossible consumption becomes a question.
3. Write it into the meter register; the historical series goes back to 2001.

Notes in the basement, numbers scattered across files, last year's values nowhere to be found.

Taking the photo — and every report to the utility.

Sanity-checking against last year's value is a four-eyes principle in miniature; it costs nothing and catches typos before they become invoices.

One photo of the meter is enough. The AI reads the value twice, sanity-checks it against last year's and writes it into the register. During setup an old series of paper notes surfaced — since then the history goes back to 2001: 38 readings from seven meters. An impossible consumption becomes a question rather than an invoice.