IOT Smart Mirror With News & Temperature

Project Title

IOT Smart Mirror With News & Temperature

Project Area of Specialization Wearables and ImplantableProject Summary

Smart mirrors are straight from science fiction. They’re part of an optimistic vision of the future that imagines a world where screens and data are everywhere, ready to feed you whatever information you need at a moment’s notice. Basically, the mirror is looks like normal mirror but when someone stands in front of it the scene changes. The mirror provides a functional, user friendly and interactive UI to its user for accessing their social sites, messengers, etc. It has widgets for displaying the current whether conditions, Time, Events, Latest news headlines The Smart Mirror would help in developing smart houses with embedded artificial intelligence, as well as finding its applications in industries. Switching home appliances becomes easy with mirror. Virtual dressing, a smart way of having trials with your fashion sense makes things quite easy in malls. Having such intellectual mirror will only surge the beauty of home. The raspberry pi is programmed using python and connects to a monitor with inbuilt speaker so as to provide an onscreen interface and voice assistance as well. Smart mirror is also developed to reduce human effort. Mirror is a basic thing that is available at everyone's home, taking advantage of this technology is embedded in it to make it smart and of more use. Now-a-days we get all the updates on our smart phone which we go through timely, but during morning rush hours it becomes a great haste to complete all morning routines. Smart mirror reduces this haste by providing you with the basic information you need to check in the morning such today's date, time according to your location, weather updates, news feed and today's schedule only by face recognition. Smart mirrors can come in all sizes from small table mirrors, to full bathroom mirrors. Smart mirrors are sometimes called ‘Magic’ Mirrors, but they both refer to the same thing.

Smart mirrors are straight from science fiction. They’re part of an optimistic vision of the future that imagines a world where screens and data are everywhere, ready to feed you whatever information you need at a moment’s notice. Basically, the mirror is looks like normal mirror but when someone stands in front of it the scene changes. The mirror provides a functional, user friendly and interactive UI to its user for accessing their social sites, messengers, etc. It has widgets for displaying the current whether conditions, Time, Events, Latest news headlines The Smart Mirror would help in developing smart houses with embedded artificial intelligence, as well as finding its applications in industries. Switching home appliances becomes easy with mirror. Virtual dressing, a smart way of having trials with your fashion sense makes things quite easy in malls. Having such intellectual mirror will only surge the beauty of home. The raspberry pi is programmed using python and connects to a monitor with inbuilt speaker so as to provide an onscreen interface and voice assistance as well.

Smart mirror is also developed to reduce human effort. Mirror is a basic thing that is available at everyone's home, taking advantage of this technology is embedded in it to make it smart and of more use. Now-a-days we get all the updates on our smart phone which we go through timely, but during morning rush hours it becomes a great haste to complete all morning routines. Smart mirror reduces this haste by providing you with the basic information you need to check in the morning such today's date, time according to your location, weather updates, news feed and today's schedule only by face recognition. Smart mirrors can come in all sizes from small table mirrors, to full bathroom mirrors. Smart mirrors are sometimes called ‘Magic’ Mirrors, but they both refer to the same thing.

Project Objectives

To the design and implement  a Magic Mirror-like interface as well as the automated home environment where users can interact with the mirror interface.

To provide a Smart mirrors as interactive devices that help you check updates easily.

To provide Smart mirrors that can help you save time and just multitask.

To design a futuristic smart mirror that provides natural interaction between users and the ambient home services.

To provide mirror that also provides a picture-in-picture sub-display to facilitate the display of services such as maps, videos via YouTube

Project Implementation Method

In the proposed design, a two way mirror will be used as a two-way mirror is made of acrylic and sits flush over the monitor, allowing the graphics on the monitor to come through while maintaining a mirror effect i.e. it is capable of displaying user relevant information such as current weather reports, local time and date, recent trending headlines, and personal appointment updates from the Google calendar. These information are taken either through internet. Hence we can say that this technology is IOT based as we are taking information through the internet. Smart mirror is a Raspberry Pi (low powered minicomputer) based display when connected to internet it picks and displays the necessary information in the presence of the user. In the proposed system, a model B Raspberry Pi 3 is used which contains 512MB SDRAM, runs on Linux platform and needs 700mA. A two way mirror is placed on the LCD screen which acts as a regular mirror when there is no light behind it or act as a glass window where information is displayed. Only when the power is provided to the mirror the customized information will be displayed. In order to retrieve updated data from the web sources various data feeds can be used such as RSS feed. The personal schedule of events and the updated weather reports can be obtained by using Google Calendar API and Weather API. For displaying these useful information Tkinter, a standard library GUI python module is used.

In the proposed design, a two way mirror will be used as a two-way mirror is made of acrylic and sits flush over the monitor, allowing the graphics on the monitor to come through while maintaining a mirror effect i.e. it is capable of displaying user relevant information such as current weather reports, local time and date, recent trending headlines, and personal appointment updates from the Google calendar. These information are taken either through internet. Hence we can say that this technology is IOT based as we are taking information through the internet.

Smart mirror is a Raspberry Pi (low powered minicomputer) based display when connected to internet it picks and displays the necessary information in the presence of the user. In the proposed system, a model B Raspberry Pi 3 is used which contains 512MB SDRAM, runs on Linux platform and needs 700mA. A two way mirror is placed on the LCD screen which acts as a regular mirror when there is no light behind it or act as a glass window where information is displayed. Only when the power is provided to the mirror the customized information will be displayed. In order to retrieve updated data from the web sources various data feeds can be used such as RSS feed.

The personal schedule of events and the updated weather reports can be obtained by using Google Calendar API and Weather API. For displaying these useful information Tkinter, a standard library GUI python module is used.

Benefits of the Project

Our project aims at including IOT technology in a mirror, because in general people spend a considerable amount of time in front of a mirror. We have seen clocks mounted on the wall, we have also seen displays at the airports, and similarly we aim at bringing this technology to our homes. This helps the user with security benefits. Smart mirror can also be useful for getting quick view of your Google feeds or accessing Gmail accounts by using face recognition. The smart mirror would help in developing smart houses by using artificial intelligence and finally finding a place in industries. The next section briefly comments on the literature review and the description of the components and software associated with it.

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

Nowadays information is available to our electronic gadgets. The one thing that concerns us is how to make tasks faster and easier. The product is similar to a regular mirror that can display weather reports, temperature, time and daily news. Raspberry pi stays at the back scene and controls the data displayed on the mirror while the LED display that is placed behind the two way mirror can serve various applications. Our proposed system allows us to build such mirrors that allow for mirrors to receive news online and display it on the mirror screen along with other details including current temperature from an open weather platform for a futuristic and modern lifestyle. Our system uses a raspberry pi based processor board along with displays that are interfaced together. We use a precisely modelled panel to construct the outer frame. Then we use specialized glass with a back frame to encase the system. The frame cavity is now fitted with precisely positioned mounts for the display housing to be fitted in the mirror. This is necessary to achieve the desired effect. Now we use raspberry pi to connect with the internet using an IOT circuit through the use of a Wi-Fi module. This allows us to receive data through the IOT platform.

Final Deliverable of the Project HW/SW integrated systemCore Industry ITOther Industries Media Core Technology Artificial Intelligence(AI)Other Technologies Augmented & Virtual RealitySustainable Development Goals Good Health and Well-Being for PeopleRequired Resources

In the proposed design, a two way mirror will be used as a two-way mirror is made of acrylic and sits flush over the monitor, allowing the graphics on the monitor to come through while maintaining a mirror effect i.e. it is capable of displaying user relevant information such as current weather reports, local time and date, recent trending headlines, and personal appointment updates from the Google calendar. These information are taken either through internet. Hence we can say that this technology is IOT based as we are taking information through the internet. Smart mirror is a Raspberry Pi (low powered minicomputer) based display when connected to internet it picks and displays the necessary information in the presence of the user. In the proposed system, a model B Raspberry Pi 3 is used which contains 512MB SDRAM, runs on Linux platform and needs 700mA. A two way mirror is placed on the LCD screen which acts as a regular mirror when there is no light behind it or act as a glass window where information is displayed. Only when the power is provided to the mirror the customized information will be displayed. In order to retrieve updated data from the web sources various data feeds can be used such as RSS feed. The personal schedule of events and the updated weather reports can be obtained by using Google Calendar API and Weather API. For displaying these useful information Tkinter, a standard library GUI python module is used.