The city of Plano approved $765,000 to hire more water meter technicians after a recent glitch with its electronic readers.

In a Wednesday speech at Black Hat USA 2011 in Las Vegas, McNabb said because wireless water meters are data collecting, embedded devices ... a direct electronic reading of the water consumption ...

With a 3D printed enclosure that doubles as a light source for the camera, the finished device perches on top of the water meter and sends the current reading to HomeAssistant via MQTT without any ...

The city has spent about $2 million dealing with transmitters whose batteries failed far sooner than expected inside homes ...

The latest is this water meter monitoring device based on a Raspberry Pi Pico ... There have, of course, been other attempts to literally read the meter using web cams and computer vision software ...

Minneapolis city employees are replacing 46,000 water meter transmitters in homes and businesses after they began to fail ...