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Most households currently still have meters with analog totalizers. The Westfälische Hochschule Zwickau assumes that the changeover to modern electronic meters, whose data can be read remotely, will take years. Employees of energy suppliers will therefore still be busy recording analog meter readings. To do this, the meter reading and the corresponding meter number must be transferred to a notepad and stored in a database with the customer number for later billing. These time-consuming work steps can be replaced with ...