COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING

MAHARANA PRATAP UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE & TECHNOLOGY

UDAIPUR (RAJ.)

SEMINAR REPORT

ON

SMART MIRRORS
submitted in partial fulfillment for the award of the Degree of Bachelor of Technology in

Department of Computer Science & Engineering

(Session 2020-2021)

Submitted By:

Pratiksha Chaudhary

B.Tech. Final Year

Computer Science and Engineering

 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I would like to express my gratitude to Miss Diksha Goyal, assistant professor, Department of
Computer Science & Engineering for her generous guidance and support. Further, I express my
sincere gratitude to assistant professor Miss Palak Jain for giving me such a wonderful
opportunity to expand my knowledge and giving me guidelines to present a seminar report. Last
but not the least, I am thankful to all my friends who directly or indirectly helped me to
complete this seminar report.

Pratiksha Chaudhary
 DECLARATION

I hereby declare that the seminar titled “Smart mirror” has been presented by me and is not
reproduced as it is from any other source. It has been submitted in partial fulfillment of the
requirement for award of Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering,
College of Technology and Engineering, a constituent of Maharana Pratap University of
Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur.

Date: 25/06/2021 Pratiksha Chaudhary

Place: Udaipur
 TABLE OF CONTENT

SNO TOPIC PAGE NO.

List of tables i

List of figures ii

Abstract 1

1. Introduction
1.1. Introduction 2
1.2. Aim of seminar 2
2. Types & features of smart mirror
2.1. Introduction 3
2.2. Types of smart mirror
2.2.1. Fit mirror 3
2.2.2. Wize mirror 3
2.2.3. Magic mirror 4
2.3. Commercial intelligent mirror
2.3.1. Phillips mirror TV and MyHeart 5
2.3.2. Cybertecture smart mirror
2.3.3. Toshiba smart mirror 6
2.3.4. Microsoft smart mirror 7
2.3.5. HiMirror 8
2.4. Necessary features 8
2.5. Additional features 9
3. Technologies used in smart mirror
3.1. Introdution 10
3.2. Gesture control 10
3.3. Voice control & temperature systems 12
3.4. High definition display 12
3.5. Humidty sensor 13
3.6. Facial recognition 13
3.7. MCU 13
3.8. Home automation and Ambient intelligence 14
4. Working of smart mirror
4.1. Introduction 15
4.2. Working of smart mirror 15
5. Applications, advantages and disadvantages
5.1. Applications of smart mirror 19
 5.2. Advantages 20
5.3. Disadvantages 21
6. Conclusion and future work
6.1. Conclusion 22
6.2. Future work 23

REFERENCES
 LIST OF TABLES
S.NO NAME PAGE NO.
1. List of Leap Motion Gestures and UI Action 11

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 LIST OF FIGURES
S.NO. NAME PAGE NO.
1. Semeoticons intelligent mirror 4
2. Magic mirror 5
3. Phillip’s MyHeart concept 6
4. Microsoft smart mirror HUD 7
5. Voltage and temperature graph 12
6. User using the smart mirror 14
7. Design 17
8. Foreground GUI State Diagram 18
9. Full screen smart mirror 22

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 ABSTRACT
Every morning our day begins by watching ourselves at least once in mirror before leaving our
homes. We interact with it psychologically to find out how we look and how our attire is. Smart
Mirror or Magic Mirror is one of the applications of Raspberry Pie. A computer screen
embedded in mirror looks very futuristic. The Raspberry Pie stays at back scenes and controls
the data displayed on mirror. While looking at mirror you can look at various notifications from
social sites as well news, weather forecast and more things. Such mirrors can be programmed to
work as AI and control home appliances by voice input or touch screen. The Raspberry Pie is
connected to monitor via HDMI as well as it also has inbuilt Wi-Fi and Bluetooth interfaces so
we can just swipe music and videos to mirror.

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 CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION
1.1 Introduction
A smart mirror is a two-way mirror with an electronic display behind the glass. Basically, the
mirror looks like normal mirror but when someone stand 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 make 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.

1.2 Aim of the Seminar

Most people have mirrors at homes the concept of a smart mirror that you can interact with is
attractive and has been fantasized in many futuristic movies. However, so far, the features of
these mirrors have been limited. aim is to know about a Smart Mirror device that people could
interact with but also to further develop the technology so that it would let you install and
develop your own applications for it.

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 CHAPTER 2

TYPES AND FEATURES OF SMART MIRROR

2.1 Introduction
This chapter will discuss the related types and feature of smart mirror. There are few research
papers specifically on smart Mirrors. The first section will focus on the hits found in a scientific
literature search, using keywords such as: magic mirror, intelligent mirror and smart mirror.
The next section will focus on the smart or intelligent mirrors found in a commercial setting. As
we will see, many manufacturers are interested in the concept, even if there are ways to go
before smart mirrors are on the same level of interest as other smart home devices. The final
section will detail the findings of smart mirrors in the do-it-yourself (DIY) realm. The interest
in smart mirror originally sparked as a cool DIY project for hobbyists.

2.2 Types of Smart Mirrors

2.2.1 FitMirror
DanielBessereretal. (2016) created a smartmirror for adding interactive fitness exercises to a
person’s morning routine. Their project utilizes the Microsoft Kinectv2 for tracking gestures
and a Wii Balance Board for presence detection.

Interactive Mirror for Smart Home Chidambaram Sethukkarasi et al. (2016) created an smart
mirror that identifies users based on facial recognition, recognizes emotions, records health
parameters and gives clothing advice. Their paper does not go in-depth on any of its subjects,
but rather try to unite the ideas under the concept of an intelligent mirror. They use Viola &
Jones for face detection and eigen faces features for recognition. No results on the performance
speed of neither detection or recognition was reported, but as shown in this thesis the speed of
detecting faces with either haar- cascades, lbp-cascades or HOG classifiers can be greatly
reduced by doing background substitution, as smaller image regions are faster to search.
Considering this paper is from 2016 it is a bit strange they opted for using eigenfaces.

2.2.2 Wize Mirror

The most intelligent of the smart mirror projects is likely to be the research project
Semeoticons. Its purpose is to analyze facial signs to measure the health level of the person in
front of it. The paper by FrancoChiarugietal.(2013) discusses the motivation and rationale
behind the project. Their idea was to extract quantitative features official expressions related to
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stress, anxiety and fatigue and use those features to quantify an individual’s well-being. The
features would be extracted from data collected from multisensory devices. The data would be
collected in the form of videos, images, 3D face scans and breath samples. The project is first
and foremost a research project to digitalize semeiotics - the physical signs produced by
diseases - from facial images. As is evident from the title of their paper, the aim is to make the
system non-intrusive to the user, but still being able to assess and monitor the individual’s well-
being. Because a mirror is a device most people use daily, either as part of their morning
routine or bed routine, Franco Chiarugi et al. (2013) idea is to hide all sensory input devices in a
mirror and provide the user with relevant feedback shown in the mirror - dubbed the Wize
Mirror.

Figure 1: Semeoticons intelligent mirror concept utilizes numerous hidden sensors

to gather information from the user without requiring any explicit input from them
FrancoChiarugi et al. (2013) also aims to customize the feedback given to each individual based
on an acquired user profile for each individual. They concluded that the research project was a
success and that creating a device for health self-monitoring and self- assessment is a reality.
Prototypes of the Wize Mirror were evaluated in the fall of 2016 and the researchers aim to
bring the product to the market in the future.

2.2.3 Magic Mirror

Magic Mirror, created by Michael Teeuw, is a mirror device built with a wooden frame, a flat
screen TV, Raspberry Pi 2and software running on a web browser (Magic Mirror, 2014). It was
initially revealed in 2014 in a blog post by Michael and it quickly gained lots of attention
reaching up tomorethan2.5millionviews. The source code for the software and step-by-step

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guide to building the hardware was also posted in Michael’s blog. It was one of the first, if not
the first popular project of its kind.

Figure 2: MagicMirror

2.3 Commercial Intelligent Mirrors

This section will give an overview of the different types of physical smart mirrors that has been
built. The term smart mirror and physical constructions of such mirrors were first mentioned
back in the middle of the 2000s. The applications started as simple heads-up-displays (HUDS)
and have in the later years evolved to include multimodal applications both for home
entertainment and as health monitoring devices

2.3.1 Phillips Mirror TV and MyHeart

In 2003 Phillips unveiled their Mirror TV that was built using the same principle as that of
smart mirrors. Their product was a normal TV that was put behind a two way mirror so that the
TV would appear as a mirror when turned off and as a TV when turned on. They also had a
option to have the mirror be larger than the TV. A usage example presented by Phillips was to
have the children watch cartoons while brushing their teeth at the same time. Later in 2005
Phillips announced their research project MyHeart that built upon the idea of an informative
mirror. While their original Mirror TV was simply a TV that also functioned as a mirror, the
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MyHeart project would integrate a display to showcase various medical statistics. However this
project required onbody electronics to collect and analyze the data. The mirror itself simply
served as an informative display.

Figure 3 Phillip’s MyHeart concept.

2.3.2 Cybertecture Smart Mirror

JamesLawCybertecture developed a commercially sold smart mirror in 2011. This mirror is
more in line with the smart mirror we’ve come to know today. The product consists of a 32"
LCD-display covered by a 37" two way mirror. The display can show weather forecasts, stream
internetTV, the current time and various widgets. The smart mirror has numerous input
methods such as remote controller, smart phone app and onscreen virtual keyboard.
HoweverCybertectures’ mirror does not enhance the mirror with any sort of intelligence. The
mirror simply shows static information as setup by the user. While being a commercially
available product, a price tag ranging from US$3600 to US$7700 makes it a smart home
appliance reserved for the smart home niche

2.3.3 Toshiba Smart Mirror

At the 2014 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Toshiba showcased their smart
mirror concept.1 Their smart mirror concept was similar to previous smart mirrors but utilized
gesture control as an input method. Toshiba showcased their smart mirror in different home
environments. Their idea was that the smart mirror would be customized for the purpose it
would serve in each room. The bathroom smart mirror would show information such as weather
forecast and a personal fitness monitor. Meanwhile the kitchen mirror would assist in cooking
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meals - in the form of finding, adjusting and preparing recipes. Since the convention in 2014
there have been few details on the future of the project and whether it will be commercialized.

2.3.4 Microsoft Smart Mirror

In 2016 Microsoft released details on the smart mirror they have been working on. Their
intention does not seem to be to create a commercial smart mirror to sell to consumers, but
rather they unveiled all the details on how to build one and made all the code publicly available
at a github repository. Rather than selling a finished product consumers have the option to
assemble their own mirror as a do-it-yourself project, without needing to do any explicit coding.
However certain knowledge of computers and technology is obviously needed to assemble the
mirror. The interface can show such things as the weather, time and date, stocks, and traffic. It
also supports facial recognition and will load customized interface profiles custom to each user.
The mirror is run by a Raspberry Pi 3 with Windows 10 IoT Core that runs a hosted web app.
This way the software is able to perform heavy tasks that would otherwise be unsuitable with
the Raspberry Pi 3’s hardware. Microsoft’s solution shines some light on the situations on the
state of smart mirrors as of 2017 - the major technology companies are yet to create smart
mirrors where the trade-off between its appeal and its price is worthwhile

Figure 4: Microsoft smart mirror HUD

2.3.5 HiMirror
Again at the 2017 CES convention there were multiple smart mirrors on display. A company
called New Kinpo Group launched their take on the smart mirror called HiMirror. This smart
mirror has a camera to specifically monitor your skin health. The mirror will scan your skin and
give you metric to tell you what to improve. The mirror uses facial recognition to log a user’s
skin firmness, texture, clarity, brightness and health on a day to day basis. Unlike many of the
previous smart mirrors this product hit the market in october 2016 at a price of $189. While
considerably cheaper than previous smart mirror entries, its features are very specific and does
not offer much besides skin health monitoring.
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2.4 Necessary Features
The “necessary” features were requirements that are imperative to the project’s design and
objectives. They were designed and implemented before any additional features were worked
on. The necessary features range from hardware requirements to interactive elements and to
software elements. These necessary features are listed below.

• The smart mirror is designed to use a 32” diagonal display, positioned vertically, which will
be mounted behind a one-way mirror allowing only elements lit on the screen to be seen by the
user.

• The smart mirror is interacted by the user using an infrared/camera controller called “Leap
Motion”. This controller allows for touch-free multi-gesture recognition within an 8 cubic feet
area above the controller.

• The smart mirror has a temperature and humidity monitoring system that will relay data to the
user as well as a failsafe system to keep the electronics protected from water damage. The ideal
operating range is 60 to 90 degrees Fahrenheit and between 20 to 80 percent humidity.

• The smart mirror contains speakers that allow for application notification sounds and music
playback.

• The smart mirror user interface has a set of 7 standard applications that provide important
information to the user including weather, Twitter, news, to-do list, calendar schedule, music,
and clock.

• The smart mirror has an auto-on and auto-off system via use of a webcam mounted in the
housing. The mirror will turn on when it recognizes that there is a user standing in front of the
mirror. The mirror will turn-off after 2-minutes of no user present

• The smart mirror has voice control through a voice recognition system developed into the user
interface. The voice control allows for interaction with the music, to-do list, and twitter
applications. The voice control is activated through a gesture provided by the user.

2.5 Additional Features

The “additional” features were requirements that are less imperative to the overall design and
function of the project but would add extra depth and usefulness to the smart mirror.

• The smart mirror would make use of the digital zoom built into the webcam to provide more
facial detail to the user on the display. This would be equivalent to a 10x zoom that could be

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used for putting on makeup or any other facial detail oriented task.

• The smart mirror would contain an outfit collection of the user’s favorite clothing
combinations. The user would take a photo of themselves in the outfit via the webcam and it
would be stored in a sudo-database. This sudo-database would then be accessible to the user to
identify what he/she wants to wear. Images could be displayed on one side of the screen to
allow for direct comparisons to whatever the user is currently wearing.

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 CHAPTER 3

TECHNOLOGIES USED IN SMART MIRROR

3.1 Introduction
Smart mirror which is developed my many commercial company have used many technologies
to introduce different kind of features .few technology used in this smart mirror are Gesture
control, voice control, temperature systems, high definition display, humidity sensors, home
automation, MCU etc

3.2 Gesture Control

One of the most important decisions in the design was what to use for interaction with the smart
mirror since it directly influences the user and their experience. the fact they are interacting
with a mirror that ideally shouldn’t need to be cleaned constantly because of finger prints.
Option one for gesture control was using infrared camera sensors to track position and
movement of the user’s hand. Option two was to use a controller- based peripheral like a TV
remote to select applications on the screen. Option three was to use a capacitive touchscreen
with a mirror finish to take gesture input on the screen.

The Leap Motion is similar in that it uses two infrared cameras that pick up the infrared
reflections that the three infrared LEDs output onto the user.

the one the smart mirror project chose to go with is the Leap Motion controller. It came at a low
price with high accuracy and a touch-less interface. It does have a higher risk of misreading the
user, but programmed with simple gestures, they rarely occur. The Leap Motion fulfills the
objectives mentioned earlier in this document and keeps the mirror clear of any fingerprint
smudges

Table 1 – List of Leap Motion Gestures and UI Actions

Gesture Action
This changes all 3 apps on the left-side
Left Swipe (Left of screen center) of
the screen from normal mode to
minimized
mode. This is performed with one hand.

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 This changes all 3 apps on the left-side
Right Swipe (Left of screen center) of
the screen from minimized mode to
normal
mode. This is performed with one hand.
This changes all 3 apps on the right-side
Left Swipe (Right of screen center) of
the screen from minimized mode to
normal
mode. This is performed with one hand.
This changes all 3 apps on the right-side
Right Swipe (Right of screen center) of
the screen from normal mode to
minimized
mode. This is performed with one hand.
This closes the app currently in
Swipe Up expanded
mode. This gesture can be performed
anywhere with one hand.
This allows for individual
Point and Hold interaction
between the individual apps. Use of this
gesture on an application in normal
mode
will change it to expanded mode.
Clockwise Circle This forces a manual data update, or
refresh, for any application using data
from
a third-party web server. For example,
the
weather app.
This activates the voice recognition
Counter-Clockwise Circle mode,
where the mirror will begin listening for
a
voice command from the user.

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3.3 Voice Control andTemperature Systems
Nowadays voice control is a very popular and useful technology that allows the user to
perform certain functions by converting words and phrases into electric signals. Building
entire speech recognition system is very time consuming and hence we integrated analready
existing speech recognition system into our design. There were a few excellent voice
recognition systems that we considered for our design such as Google Voice, AT&T Speech
API, Nuance Voice Control SDK, and CMU Sphinx toolkit. The most important factors
determined the speech system to go with was ease of integration, cost, and accuracy.

Temperature Systems:-

Figure 5: describes the relationship between the output voltage and temperature

Change of state devices change in color and/or appearance based on the temperature. Its
advantages include low price, wide range of temperature values and a fast way of measuring.
Infrared sensors use radiation to measure temperature. Its advantages include the ability to
measure temperature where it is difficult to use contact temperature sensor and long
operating life. Its disadvantages are inaccuracy, high cost, and that it could be affected by
other infrared radiation

3.4 High Definition Display

For the High Definition Display, the smart mirror project planned to use a 32” high definition
television. There were many different choices among televisions to choose from. Cost will
play a factor in choosing a television. Another decision that has to be made is if we should
use a 1080p vs. 720p and how much of a difference would it make on our smart mirror. The
decision involved a choice between LED, LCD and Plasma. The television was behind a
“two way mirror” that was glued to the screen. This television was used to project an image
of certain applications through the mirror while the left of the mirror will still reflect the
image of its surroundings. For the mirror to be able to reflect the television behind it must not
emit any light thus being “dark.” For the mirror to project the image behind it the television

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must be very bright. So the television we chose in turn must be very bright when the picture
is shown and also while it is still on it must be very dark when needed. This made the mirror
reflect the image when needed and also show the applications when needed as well.

3.5 Humidity Sensor

There are many important parameters that needed to be analyzed when choosing what type of
humidity sensor is needed for the smart mirror. Size, accuracy, cost, long- term stability, and
many others were taken into consideration in this process. The most common types of
humidity sensors are capacitive and resistive sensors

3.6 Facial Recognition:

Facial recognition technology adopts an image matching approach to identify individuals. It
can identify people from video sources or digital images. While there are several facial
recognition algorithms, they generally work by comparing selected facial features from the
given images with faces within a database. The technology has led to applications in
consumer and enterprise use cases. OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision Library) is an
open source computer vision and machine learning library. It supports face detection, face
training, and face prediction. Face detection is the process of identifying faces Face training
is the process of studying several pictures of the same person to learn the features specific to
the individual. This process creates a database of the known users. Face prediction is the
process of identifying a known or pre-registered individual in a new image.

3.7 MCU
The microcontroller was going to be used for one main application in the smart mirror. It was
planned to be used to take the data from the humidity and temperature sensor and also have
control signals for the temperature regulation system that communicate with the PC. There
were many different microcontrollers that can be used to complete these tasks so the most
efficient one was going to be used.The first specification to compare was the clock speed. In
a MCU, the clock speed affects how well the processor is at handling higher loads of data. As
stated earlier, the MCU must handle two things. First is taking data from the humidity and
temperature sensor. This required an onboard analog-to-digital converter (ADC) to convert
the voltage levels outputted by the sensors to a digital bit.

3.8 Home automation and Ambient intelligence

Home automation has been around for a long time and it is all about turning the house into an
intelligent unit with the goal of increasing comfort and efficiency at home. Some of the
typical applications are automatic lights, intelligent thermostats, alarms, window blinds
(Home automation, 2013). In my project I will not be focusing on home automation since I

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don't have access to any smart home devices. However, it would be very easy to write an
application to turn on and off the lights using voice commands or gestures on the mirror or
even an application to change the temperature of the room

Ambient Intelligence (AmI) creates electronic environments that are sensitive and responsive
to the presence of people.. Devices work in harmony to support people in carrying out their
everyday life activities and tasks in easy, natural way in ambientintelligence. People use
information and intelligence which is hidden in the network connecting these devices.

Figure 6: user using the smart mirror

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 CHAPTER 4

WORKING OF SMART MIRROR

4.1 Introduction
In this chapter we will discuss about the working of smart mirror, its user interface with
Functional approach, non functional approach, Gesture-based Functional Smart Mirror and
the Voice- based Functional Smart Mirror and few important parts of smart mirror.

4.2 Working of Smart mirror

There are three components of a smart mirror: a two-way mirror, a display, and a computer
device. Let’s look at each part and how they run the smart mirror.

4.2.1 Two-Way Mirror

A normal mirror has a film behind the glass that reflects 100% incoming light,This means
when you look at a mirror, you see your reflection. A two-way mirror reflects light from one
direction, but allows light to pass through from the other direction. You’ve probably seen
two-way mirrors in the movies in police interrogation rooms. Smart mirrors use two- way
mirrors to allow the light from the display to pass through the mirror.

4.2.2 Display
behind the two-way mirror sits a monitor screen/TV/tablet. This is used to display any
information modules for your smart mirror. The display can be the same size as the mirror, it
can be smaller than the mirror. Throughout this site you’ll see different sized displays used in
smart mirrors

4.2.3 Computer
something has to run the content you see on your smart mirror. A small computer device
such as a Raspberry Pi is more than enough to power a smart mirror. The type of computer
device you need depends on what you what to do with smart mirror.

4.2.4 Microphones
One mode of interaction with the smart mirror is through microphones. Two microphones
were used to power the voice recognition capabilities of the device.This system called
SMART MIRROR is proposed to integrate different devices.

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In 2014 Toshiba developed a TV on this very concept which includes touch functionalities
This concept has been materialized by quite a few people around the world but until now a
casting stick and a TV has been used for the display, the concept of mirroring one screen
another onto another wireless on a wifi network.

The objective is to provide a natural interface in the home environment for accessing various
services such as location based weather, time, calendar etc. It includes downloading the
Raspbian operating system based on Debian and extracting the image on SD card, inserting
the card in the RPI SD slot and then performing the required steps.

• The working is based on raspberry-pi.

• That screen can be an Android tablet or a computer monitor.

• The project which would collect real world machine data.

• Use of speech processing techniques and speech recognition

• Use of image detection.

• Displays all the necessary information which is useful for the user.

• Flat monitor is used for display.

• Two way mirror is used

• The mirror is eventually a technologically augmented interaction device.

• Provide a natural interface.

• Location based weather, time; calendar etc can be accessed with ease.

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 Figure 7 : Design of smart mirror

Working:
• Preparing the monitor: The monitor is unmounted and the necessary taping is done.

• Preparing the Cabinet: The wooden cabinet is prepared which holds the mechanism
inside it.

• Mounting: The mirror and the monitor are then mounted on this wooden cabinet.

• Configure the Pi : The raspberry pi 3 is configured

• Configuring Sound

• Configuring Voice

• Configure the smart-mirror

• Setting up Smart-Mirror to Run on

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Figure 8: Foreground GUI State Diagram

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 CHAPTER 5

APPLICATIONS, ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF

SMART MIRROR
5.1 Applications of smart mirror
Various applications of Smart mirror technology are-

1. Automotive, consumer & household, medical & healthcare, and advertising & retail.

2. In addition, there are numerous opportunities available in automotive sector using advanced
electronic technologies such as Wi-Fi connectivity, integrated sensor systems to further improve
road safety.

3. The main features the Smart Mirror would have would be showing basic weather and time
information. We would also be able to play music in some way and see pictures through
Instagram.

4. It is also used to add alarms, reminders or notes in a similar way we stick post it notes on a
fridge using voice commands or gestures on the mirror or even an application to change the
temperature of the room.

5. It has gained a lot of popularity predicting that in the future most everyday objects will be
connected to each other and will be able to interact in smart ways.

6. The Smart Mirror will eventually become one of the connected objects in our households and
if we think about it being able to communicate with other objects the possibilities become
endless.

7. Home automation has been around for a long time and it is all about turning the house into an
intelligent unit with the goal of increasing comfort and efficiency at home. Some of the typical
applications are automatic lights, intelligent thermostats, alarms.

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5.2. Advantages
1. Attractive Light Box: Ordinary light box is simply a board. Magic mirror motion display light
box is not just a board for propaganda. Images are dynamic and, it is also a mirror. Almost all
people are attracted by mirror. When mirrors suddenly convert to images, it draws more
attention.

2. Adjustable Images Switching Time: Display duration between sequential display images is
adjusted according to requirement. It could be shortened or lengthened. For example, if the
image is full of information, duration between images is lengthened to allow more time for
attention.

3. Fast& Easy Images Replacement: It takes just few minutes to replace images. It is fast and
easy. Time consuming between this device and other devices is very less.

4. Very Low Power Consumption: Digital electronic rectifier controls energy saving light source.
It consumes very low power.

5. Easy to communicate: It allows the user to interact using different means.

6. User-friendly: It will be one of the first Smart Mirrors you can interact with and also one of
the first smart mirrors to let you install apps as per our choice.

7. Voice input: It also includes the voice recognition feature in MirrorOS uses an online API
made by Google. The API is not officially supported and it has a 50 query a day limit, but it is
the best one available. To use the API, you need to make an HTTP POST request to the API’s
URL with a mono FLAC audio file with a 16000 bitrate.

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5.3 Disadvantages
There are very few limitations:

1. The limitation is that the app ecosystem is currently very small, the glass could be more
reflective but it can be easily changed swipe gestures are sometimes unreliable.

2. The hardware and software more decoupled because current the sensors and microphones are
tied to the software and it can be difficult to make the OS work with different hardware

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 CHAPTER 6

CONCLUSION AND FUTURE WORK

6.1 Conclusion
The main strengths of this project are that this is a new kind of smart device that people don’t see
every day and it looks very spectacular. The platform has a very simple API that makes it very
easy for developers to make apps

The smart mirror idea was created to give instant access to information in a convenient and time-
saving environment, the bathroom. All other aspects of the mirror’s design developed from these
ideas and inspirations.

This paper presented a smart mirror system that has integrated several impressive features with a
user-friendly architecture. A reliable and easy to use design was implemented following a
service-oriented approach. In today’s world of interconnected devices, security cannot be
ignored.

Figure 9: Full screen smart mirror

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6.2 Future work

Considering this, this system was equipped with a strong authentication framework to ensure end
to end security of the whole system. This feature sets this project aside from other similar works.
The future offers endless possibilities for advancement of the prototype. The most notable is the
possibility for the user to take the smart mirror display around the entire home. This can be
achieved by connecting the smart mirror to a smart projector that is able to project the smart
mirror display on various surfaces (walls, table tops etc.) around the home.With an added camera
and a microphone, the user would be able access the full features of the smart mirror from other
parts of the home without compromising security.

Smart Mirror can be great example of how AI can be integrated into home appliances to make
our life easier, efficient and more enjoyable.

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