Smart Mirror Devices

Abstract

Smart home devices are more and more common these days. Not only normal computers are helping us to manage the everyday business. It is the way of interaction between computer and user, which is creating new value. To simplify the communication, the end user needs smart devices, such as smartphones, smart door openers, smart washing machines or smart mirrors. The latter is investigated deeper in the following paragraphs. The study was performed in an university course – a technical student project, where the students not only created a concept, but also built a technical prototype of a smart mirror. During this process, the following tasks were accomplished: 1. Building the prototype/connecting all hardware components, 2. Programming a Raspberry-Pi computer in Python for the smart mirror device, including a camera with face scanning feature, different apps like weather forecast, live connected notebook/to-do list, welcome screen with personification and a clock, 3. Creating a short concept, where a market as well as economy analysis, presentation of the technical structure and analysis of the current application area was made. The result is an intelligent smart home mirror with personalized user interface.

Student project partners: Oliver Sosna and Paul Grotzke.