CN116164805A - Digital wheel intelligent water meter with invisible codes - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention discloses a digital wheel intelligent water meter with invisible codes, which comprises a meter shell, a flow sensing mechanism, a gear transmission mechanism and a plurality of digital wheels which are assembled in the meter shell and can display water consumption, wherein an identification device and a signal transmitting device are arranged at corresponding positions of the digital wheels, the digital display surface of the digital wheels displays numerals and has invisible codes, the numerals arranged in the digital display surface are arranged by adopting naked eye visual layers, the invisible codes are arranged by adopting invisible layers, thus, the invisible codes are arranged so as not to interfere manual reading of digital values, a professional infrared or ultraviolet reading instrument is convenient for quickly reading out invisible code data, the data quantity is much smaller than that of image identification, the reading accuracy is greatly improved, the working efficiency is improved, the cost of a water service data center machine room is reduced, and good social and economic benefits are realized.
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Technical Field
The invention belongs to the technical field of intelligent water meters, and particularly relates to an intelligent digital wheel water meter with invisible codes.
Background
Most of the existing intelligent water meters adopt a visual sensing method to read water meter digital wheels to be numbers, the numbers are displayed on the digital wheels as shown in figure 1, a visual sensing camera reads images and processes the images into data of each digit and then the data are remotely transmitted to a water service data center.
The bar code or the two-dimensional code is used for replacing the number displayed by the water meter, so that the defects of low recognition rate and large workload of the traditional camera type direct-reading water meter are overcome. In the prior art, the bevel gear arranged on the transverse transmission shaft is generally designed in an integrated manner, the water meter reading is shown in fig. 2, the number displayed by the water meter is replaced by the two-dimensional code disclosed in the patent document of CN201621168756.8, the traditional digital display is replaced by the two-dimensional code, the water meter reading can be determined by adopting the identification technology of the two-dimensional code and utilizing the pixel dot matrix of the cheap camera, the water meter reading is not influenced by various external factors such as light rays, dust, position change, character rolling and the like, the anti-interference capability is extremely strong, the cost is reduced, and the identification requirement is met. Because the display area on the digit wheel is limited, if two-dimensional codes and digits are printed simultaneously, recognition can be affected, people can be led to be in a state of being dazzled when directly reading the digits, and digits can not be printed in order to enable the two-dimensional codes to be clearly recognized as disclosed in CN201621168756.8 patent document, but the two-dimensional code technology is adopted to replace the traditional digital display, people can not intuitively read the digits, and the adjustment, maintenance or remote transmission failure of the water meter can be affected, so that the water meter digits are not convenient to use.
Therefore, it is highly necessary to create new technical methods for reading the numbers of the meter wheel.
Disclosure of Invention
The invisible codes are manufactured by skillfully utilizing the invisible infrared image layer or the invisible ultraviolet image layer material, the defects are overcome through the invisible bar code layer and the displayable digital layer, the invisible code information is read through an infrared or ultraviolet light sensing instrument, and the use convenience of the water meter is improved.
Specifically, the invention provides a digital wheel intelligent water meter with invisible codes, which comprises: the meter case, the flow sensing mechanism, the gear transmission mechanism and the digital wheels capable of displaying water consumption are assembled in the meter case, and the corresponding positions of the digital wheels are provided with a recognition device and a signal emission device; the outer edge of each digital wheel is provided with ten digital display surfaces, the ten digital display surfaces are sequentially and correspondingly provided with ten Arabic numerals of 0-9, each digital display surface is also provided with invisible codes, adjacent digital wheels are in decimal relation, different numerals on the digital display surfaces correspond to different invisible codes, the numerals arranged in the digital display surfaces are arranged by adopting macroscopic visual layers, and the invisible codes are arranged by adopting macroscopic invisible layers.
Furthermore, the invisible codes are coated on the digital display surface by adopting materials capable of reflecting infrared rays and ultraviolet rays, the identification device is an infrared identification device or an ultraviolet identification device, and the identification device reads information of the invisible codes.
Further, the invisible codes are arranged above or below Arabic numerals on the digital display surface.
Further, the position of the covert code is configured to correspond to the left or right of the corresponding digital position of the number wheel.
Further, the invisible codes are arranged above Arabic numerals on the digital display surface.
Further, the invisible code is a bar code.
Further, the invisible codes are two-dimensional codes formed by matrix blocks.
Further, the invisible code corresponding to each digit comprises position information and digital information, wherein the position information is used for identifying weight position information of the digit, and the digital information is used for identifying the digital information of the position.
The beneficial effects of the invention are as follows: the digital wheel and the invisible codes are subjected to optical differentiation treatment through the infrared image layer or the ultraviolet image layer, the visible light is used for displaying the numbers, the image layer is used for displaying the invisible codes corresponding to the numbers, the manual reading of digital values is not interfered, the professional infrared or ultraviolet reading instrument is also convenient for quickly reading the invisible code data, the data quantity is much smaller than that of image recognition, the reading accuracy is greatly improved, the working efficiency is improved, the cost of a water service data center machine room is reduced, and good social and economic benefits are realized. Meanwhile, the technology of the invisible code is adopted, so that the display of the numbers on the water meter is not affected, and the water meter numbers can be conveniently read under the condition of failure of water meter adjustment, maintenance or remote transmission.
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Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of a display of a number wheel of the prior art.
Fig. 2 is a schematic diagram showing a two-dimensional code of the prior art.
Fig. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of a digital wheel intelligent water meter with invisible codes according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 4 is a schematic diagram 1 of a layer invisible code digital wheel according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 5 is a schematic diagram of a layer invisible code digital wheel according to an embodiment of the present invention 2.
Fig. 6 is a schematic diagram of a layer invisible code digital wheel according to an embodiment of the present invention shown in fig. 3.
Fig. 7 is a schematic diagram of a solution of the intelligent water service system of the internet of things, which is composed of the invisible code water meter of the invention.
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In order to more clearly illustrate the technical scheme of the embodiment of the invention, the drawings required to be used in the description of the embodiment are briefly introduced below; it will be apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art that the drawings in the following description are of some embodiments of the invention and that other drawings may be derived from these drawings without the exercise of inventive faculty.
The inventor invents a digital wheel intelligent water meter with invisible codes according to technical experience, sales data and customer technical requirements of the water meter industry for many years, and particularly aiming at the defect of large water consumption image processing data volume caused by the electronic meter reading of the existing water meter, as shown in fig. 3-7, the spare part of the water meter also comprises a meter shell, a flow sensing mechanism, a gear transmission mechanism and a plurality of digital wheels 1 capable of displaying water consumption, wherein the meter shell is the same as the conventional water meter, and a recognition device 2 and a signal transmitting device 3 are arranged at corresponding positions of the digital wheels 1; the outer edge of each digital wheel is provided with ten digital display surfaces 100, ten Arabic numerals 101 of 0-9 are sequentially and correspondingly arranged on the ten digital display surfaces 100, the numerals of the water meter are displayed as 6 digits in the digital frame in fig. 2, in order to achieve the purposes of facilitating identification and transmission of water meter information, namely, the invention has the innovation point that each digital display surface is also provided with an invisible code 102, the adjacent digital wheels are in decimal relation, different numerals 101 on the digital display surfaces 100 correspond to different invisible codes 102, the numerals 101 arranged in the digital display surfaces are arranged in a macroscopic layer, the invisible codes 102 are arranged in a macroscopic layer, so that the invisible codes 102 cannot interfere manual reading of digital values, professional infrared or ultraviolet reading instruments are also convenient for quickly reading out invisible code data, the data quantity is much smaller than that of image identification, the reading accuracy is greatly improved, the working efficiency is facilitated, the cost of a water service data center is reduced, and good social and economic benefits are realized.
Specifically, the invisible codes 102 are coated on the digital display surface 100 by adopting materials capable of reflecting infrared rays and ultraviolet rays, the identification device 2 is an infrared identification device or an ultraviolet identification device, the identification device 2 reads information of the invisible codes 101, and a signal identified by the identification device 2 is transmitted to a terminal receiving device of the water service management system through the signal transmitting device 3, so that automatic meter reading of the water meter is realized.
In this embodiment, an infrared or ultraviolet material is used as the coating material to mark the covert code 102, namely: the invisible codes adopt a reflecting surface of infrared materials or a reflecting surface of ultraviolet materials to be coated on a digital display surface 100 on the digital wheel, ten different invisible codes are respectively configured corresponding to ten Arabic numerals on the digital wheel, the invisible codes are used for reading water meter numerals through a code scanning instrument, the different invisible codes respectively correspond to different numerals, and one invisible code corresponds to one numeral one by one. The display surface of the digital wheel is provided with a number readable by a conventional naked eye, and a code reader sensitive to infrared or ultraviolet (an infrared or ultraviolet sensor is arranged to detect the invisible code on the surface of the digital wheel of the water meter, the number of bits, the number and the position of the digital wheel are determined according to the scanning result), the infrared sensor can still be used even in the dark or at night without lamplight, and the ultraviolet sensor is similar to the banknote detector in that an ultraviolet emitting tube and an ultraviolet receiver are required, so that the ultraviolet detection is very sensitive. Whereas the position of the covert code is designed to be arranged to correspond to the position of the corresponding number of the number wheel above or below or to the left or right, fig. 4 shows that the covert code is arranged to the left of the number.
It will be readily appreciated that the covert code 102 may be configured as a bar code or a matrix block code or other form of scannable covert code, and that the bar code may be replaced with a two-dimensional code.
Fig. 5 shows another configuration relationship between the invisible code 102 and the number 101, where the invisible code 102 is also located at the left side of the number 101, and the invisible code 102 is in a long-short form, so that more digits and digital information can be accommodated. As shown in fig. 4, 103 corresponds to the first digit 2, 104 corresponds to the second digit 3, etc., the first stripe of the long and short invisible code 105 is long, the second stripe is long, the third stripe is short, and the fourth stripe is short, so that the digital information, etc. represented by the long and short code can be read by configuring the upper and lower double-bit scanning lines for synchronous scanning, and the characteristics of large information quantity and simple structure are provided.
Fig. 6 shows another configuration relationship between the invisible codes 102 and the numbers 101, where the invisible codes 101 are arranged above the arabic numerals 101 on the digital display surface 100, so that the invisible codes 102 can be simultaneously contained in the positions of the numbers 101, so that the invisible codes 102 can be made larger, thereby being convenient for better identification of the identification device and improving the identification efficiency and accuracy. In this embodiment, an infrared coating or an ultraviolet coating is coated on the digital display surface 100, and then a corresponding number is coated, so that the number can be identified by human eyes, and a corresponding infrared or ultraviolet scanner can be used to sweep the invisible code configured on the coating, so that the two-dimensional code and the number are printed simultaneously, the identification is not affected, the dazzling disorder caused when people directly read the number is avoided, and the reading can be clear, wherein the digital information, the digital information and the like which are directly represented by the scanning result have the advantages of quick code sweeping, small data, no need of image identification, greatly reduced data reliability enhancement, invisible code structure, compatibility with the naked eye and the like, and the technology of the invisible code is adopted, so that the display of the number on the water meter is not affected, and the water meter number is conveniently read under the conditions of water meter adjustment, maintenance or remote transmission failure.
Fig. 7 is a solution of the intelligent water service system of the internet of things, which is formed by the invisible code water meter of the invention.
The remote water meter system of the Internet of things is a system solution for providing public resource intelligent management and control for water supply enterprises through a GSM wireless public network, and the meter has the management and service functions of on-line monitoring, remote control, statistics, intelligent charging and the like, which are simple to install, do not need wiring and are equivalent to common meter installation. The intelligent meter reading system can provide a complete remote intelligent meter reading solution for water supply enterprises, provides reliable technical support for energy conservation, consumption reduction, management upgrading, stepped charging and intelligent and modern management, and can be well integrated into smart city construction and become an indispensable important component. The method is suitable for the meter box meter well in the centralized meter box with GPRS network coverage, and is also suitable for scattered users and indoor users for water meter installation. The method opens up huge market space for the invisible code internet of things intelligent water meter (the invisible code internet of things meter).
In summary, the intelligent digital wheel water meter with the invisible codes comprises a meter shell, a flow sensing mechanism, a gear transmission mechanism and a plurality of digital wheels which are assembled in the meter shell and can display water consumption, wherein an identification device and a signal transmitting device are arranged at corresponding positions of the digital wheels, the digital display surface of the digital wheels displays the numbers and has the invisible codes, the numbers arranged in the digital display surface are arranged by adopting an macroscopic visual layer, the invisible codes are arranged by adopting an invisible layer, thus, the invisible codes are arranged so as not to interfere manual reading of digital values, a professional infrared or ultraviolet reading instrument is convenient for quickly reading invisible code data, the data quantity is much smaller than that of image identification, the reading accuracy is greatly improved, the working efficiency is improved, the cost of a water service data center machine room is reduced, and good social and economic benefits are realized.
As can be seen from the above detailed description, the technical scheme embodied by the embodiment of the invention realizes that the novel intelligent water meter is constructed by the invisible code digital wheel for the first time, thereby establishing and perfecting the intelligent water management system of the Internet of things, and contributing to improving the intelligent level of cities and realizing good social benefits.
The above embodiments are only illustrative of the technology of the present invention, not limiting the invention, and any other embodiments obtained by combining, exchanging, substituting etc. under the technical concept of the present invention also fall within the scope of the claims of the present invention, which are defined by the appended claims.
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1. Digital wheel intelligent water meter of stealthy sign indicating number in area, its characterized in that includes: the meter case, the flow sensing mechanism, the gear transmission mechanism and the digital wheels capable of displaying water consumption are assembled in the meter case, and the corresponding positions of the digital wheels are provided with a recognition device and a signal emission device; the outer edge of each digital wheel is provided with ten digital display surfaces, the ten digital display surfaces are sequentially and correspondingly provided with ten Arabic numerals of 0-9, each digital display surface is also provided with invisible codes, adjacent digital wheels are in decimal relation, different numerals on the digital display surfaces correspond to different invisible codes, the numerals arranged in the digital display surfaces are arranged by adopting macroscopic visual layers, and the invisible codes are arranged by adopting macroscopic invisible layers.
2. The intelligent digital wheel water meter with the invisible codes according to claim 1, wherein the invisible codes are coated on the digital display surface by adopting materials capable of reflecting infrared rays and ultraviolet rays, the identification device is an infrared identification device or an ultraviolet identification device, and the identification device reads information of the invisible codes.
3. The digital wheel intelligent water meter with invisible codes according to claim 1, wherein the invisible codes are arranged above or below the arabic numerals on the digital display surface.
4. The digital wheel intelligent water meter with the invisible codes according to claim 1, wherein the positions of the invisible codes are configured to correspond to the left or right of the corresponding digital positions of the digital wheels.
5. The digital wheel intelligent water meter with invisible codes according to claim 1, wherein the invisible codes are arranged above the arabic numerals on the digital display surface.
6. The digital wheel intelligent water meter with invisible codes according to claim 1, wherein the invisible codes are bar codes.
7. The intelligent digital wheel water meter with the invisible codes according to claim 1, wherein the invisible codes are two-dimensional codes formed by matrix blocks.
8. The digital wheel intelligent water meter with invisible codes according to any one of claims 1 to 7, wherein the invisible code corresponding to each number comprises position information and digital information, the position information is used for identifying weight position information where the number is located, and the digital information is used for identifying digital information of the position.
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