應用水流發電之區域能源監控系統

Regional Energy Management System Based on water Power Supply

利用CMOS影像感應器與低價的ARM9開發板進行錶值影像擷取辨識和ZigBee無線通訊模組傳輸遠端資料，並導入漏水監測技術，使區域漏水獲得改善，為了防止因突發事件導致資料遺失，提供資料備分至USB或SD卡的功能；本系統模組亦可將傳統水錶、電錶、瓦斯錶等納入遠端自動辨識讀錶系統，取代了抄錶人員的動作，以達到減少人力成本的支出，也縮短了抄錶所花費的時間和大幅提昇工作的效率，並應用水流發電發展出可長期偵測落後區域動態之低功耗區域能源監控系統。

In this paper, CMOS imaging sensors and An ARM board are adopted to capture and recognize the image of water meter digits respectively. In addition, a ZigBee wireless communication module is applied for transmission data. In order to prevent from losing information incidentally, information is backed up to USB or SD card automatically. To reduce spending on labor costs and shorten the time spent by traditional manual meter reading, the proposed system module can be incorporated not only on the traditional water meter, electric meter, but also on gas meter for automatic meter reading. In order to reduce regional water leakage, water leakage detection technology is also applied to detect water leakage in this system. Eventually, water power supply is applied to support a long term regional energy monitor.