jomjol/AI-on-the-edge-device
Easy to use device for connecting "old" measuring units (water, power, gas, ...) to the digital world
About the project
Turns analog utility meters (water, gas, electricity) into digital ones using an ESP32-CAM: the camera photographs the readings and TensorFlow Lite recognizes the digits on-device. Data is exposed via MQTT, InfluxDB or REST API.
Useful for
- Connect an old water meter to Home Assistant via MQTT
- Log electricity meter readings into InfluxDB for graphs
- Read a gas meter remotely through the REST API
README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.
Why it’s trending
- 30 stars today. The usual pace is 3 per day, so that's 12× as much.
- Before this, the repository barely got any stars — about 3 per day.
- The spike has held for 2 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
- GitHub Trending C++ today: #1, +39 stars.
Stars per day
Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 8,727
- Stars in a day
- 30
- Forks
- 908
- Issues and pull requests
- 2,814
- Watchers
- 147
- Language
- C++
- Latest release
- v16.1.0 · January 11, 2026
- Created
- July 28, 2020
- Last push
- July 3, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
Spotted in
- September 13, 2026GitHub Trending C++ today: #1, +39 stars
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