How Artificial Intelligence Can Automate Reading Your Water Meter In Home Assistant

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Artificial intelligence and machine learning are used to automate the reading of a water meter, but it could be any type of meter. The best part is that we can integrate it with Home Assistant with MQTT. If you have ever wanted to track your usage or set up alerts or automations, then this is the video for you! Also this is a fantastic means of aggregating data to analyze.

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