Smart curtain as interactive display in living space

Abstract

In the era of IoT, there is the necessity of information display for IoT devices in living space. One ideal realization should be 'ubiquitous' for such a purpose. We propose smart curtain as an implementation of ubiquitous computing in living space, which has the following four advantages; (a) a role of boundary between two spaces such as indoor and outdoor, (b) natural layer structure which consists of translucent curtain and drape curtain, (c) relatively large area which can offer enough space for displaying a lot of information and image which can make good atmosphere, and (d) context awareness by sensing surrounding environment and the state (opening/closing) of curtain. Though its visual quality is not expected to be so high, there should be many kinds of contents which don't need high visual quality.