Design of a Cost-Effective Smart Mirror Using Raspberry Pi

Abstract

As the technology becomes more and more advanced with time, automations are taking over our day to day lives. More and more innovations are being done in this space to enable people getting exposed to technology and in turn live a tech-supported lifestyle. This research paper proposes a model of a Smart Mirror which is a normal mirror but with which the user can interact. The proposed model is robust and full of features which can be directly used in a person’s day to day life. The proposed model consists of two subsystems namely software and hardware, they both work in unison to make a complete end to end device. The hardware sub system of the model includes a Raspberry Pi and a few other components. While the software sub system enables the functioning of the proposed system. The core of the smart mirror is the Magic Mirror module which stores all the APIs for the features which the model incorporates. These APIs are critical as they help in fetching real time information. The proposed model has features like Calendar, Music App, Weather Forecast, News etc, the model can be scaled to add as many features as one can in order to make it customized. The ability of the proposed model to use APIs and add more features makes it more robust and cost-effective in general.