IoT Enhanced Smart Mirror for Personal and Commercial Applications

Abstract

The computing capability of the cloud computing drives the IoT applications to the level applicable in the real time based use cases, with the support of more immersive and conducive UI based interactions. The evolution of Internet of Things facilitates variety of home based and commercial systems with advent multi-dimensional application independency. A smart mirror is one in every of the recent inseparable smart home decorative product. In this work, a cost effective smart mirror was developed and designed on the RPI’s Debian based Raspbian Operating System platform and projected over the display interface with the assistance of Apache web server. It fetched updated data from the ThingSpeak cloud platform for the users. It was made up of a standard mirror and a projection unit. It prevalently used to display real time updates and prompt notifications like weather, traffic, calendar, news feeds, maps and social media with an intelligent open-ended voice search interface. It also used updates in a more immersive manner. It was controlled the net technologies like PHP, java script and Cascaded style Sheet for the designing of interfaces and server side maneuvers. It completely run through the PHP scripts with basically no complex external dependencies. Many open source API’s like Google maps API, Google Cal and open weather chart API were used for gathering information from internet. Several performance evaluations had been done to justify the intelligent smart mirror as an amenable product for the personal as well as commercial use.