AUTOMONOUS PULSE READING AND RECORDING SYSTEM

摘要

The present invention relates to an autonomous pulse reading and recording system aimed at expediting centralised reading of meters generating or sending out pulses, likewise expediting comsumption billing. The invention is specifically useful for water, gas or electricity meters, but can likewise be used for telephone or telex meters or those used in any other system generating or sending our pulses. The invention carries out a wholly automatic serial reading of a number of meters, avoiding possible human errors. Serial reading of the various meters can be effected from a distance, by radio or merely using a portable readout processor or normal computer. Another object of the invention is to allow simple and inexpensive increase of the number of meters to be read out.