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Afia Fairose Abedin- 17101360

Syed Saad-Ul-Kabir- 17101363

Sabila Al Jannat- 17101302

Galib Abrar Talukdar- 17101118

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 A mirror that don't just reflect, it informs.

1st Afia Fairose Abedin 2nd Alim Aldin Rohan 3rd Syed Saad-Ul-Kabir
Computer science and engineering, Computer science and engineering, Computer science and engineering,
Brac university Brac university Brac university
Chittagong, Bangladesh Chittagong, Bangladesh Chittagong, Bangladesh
afiaabedin@gmail.com alim.aldin.rohan@gmail.com saad.hereafter@gmail.com
4th Sabila Al Jannat 5th Galib Talukdar
Computer science and engineering, Computer science and engineering,
Brac university Brac university
Dhaka, Bangladesh Dhaka, Bangladesh
sabila.al.jannat@gmail.com

Abstract— Time is what we want most, but what we use worst. mirror which displays relevant information’s to the user such as
-William Penn. weather, news, Crypto Currency Market, prayer time etc. For

Our lives are getting faster and maintaining a time schedule is example, students like us are always struggling with a busy

being difficult now a days. From schools to offices and meetings, schedule and have little or no time to go through news updates.

being on time is the most challenging issue now. Though Suppose, there is a fire outrage or a blockage of road due to heavy

advancement in technologies like smartphones have helped us a lot rain and since we are not accustomed to reading news, we have no

to speed up our lives yet there is no end of objects that could be idea about the incident. Here is where our smart mirror comes in

made “smarter,” for our own comfort and betterment. Every day play, while preparing oneself to go out the news notification will

we spent at least 15 to 20 minutes in front of the mirror and so we pop on the screen and we will be notified about the occurrences

planned to make this time also productive and efficient to the outside. Moreover, we have thought in a religious aspect too that

person using the mirror. In the proposed idea we present a Smart often we miss our prayer times due to work so what if we set a

Mirror with various features to make sure that every minute of the customize prayer reminder which will display on the assigned time

user is utilized properly. The prototype of this mirror is powered and we will be able to pray on time. From airports to hospitals all

and controlled by Raspberry Pi 3 and all the final output in form of the places have systems for displaying information for the

real time data feeds are displayed on a monitor attached with one convenience of people and we have tried to propose the same

way mirror. The smart mirror is a development effort to augment concept in our homes. Heads will be up and hands will be free, a

the mirror with proper embedded intelligence for offering new addition to advancement of home automation.

enhanced features such as weather of the city, latest updates of
news and headlines and local time corresponding to the location.
The data feeds use web service-based communication to extract
data packets available through various APIs offered by websites.
I. Introduction
This research project has been implemented in the context of time
where we are getting habituated with more and more digitalization.
The Internet has evolved our lives by connecting us more easily to
information and other people in the virtual world. Usually, the sole
purpose of the mirror is for personal grooming oneself, decoration
and architecture. Hence, we have decided to break the stereotype
and add intelligence to our traditional mirrors for personal
betterment. Our current focus of innovation is to provide more
information, but less interaction to get it. It is a wall hanging
As being students, we constantly have presentations and practicing
in front of the mirror is the best way to improve speech deliveries.
Now what if we have a time display on the mirror that can help us
to check the time it takes us for delivering the speech. That is how
we stormed the idea of smart mirror. Subconsciously, we have a
tendency of looking into mirror and that’s why advancing the
mirror with features will be beneficial for everyone. Constantly
checking phone is distracting and having a device that will cut off
the time consumption of looking into phone for general
information’s might result fruitful innovation. Furthermore,
implementing smart mirror using Raspberry Pi requires least
number of resources and effort to generate information’s from
APIs.
Initially, we started with gathering our hardware and equipment
like raspberry pi-mirror, wooden frame, display etc. One group
worked on the research paper while other one worked on learning
about the pi. We merged our learnings and ideas and came up with
this smart mirror. Finally, we completed our entire report and
prototype.
The remainder of this paper is organized as follows. Section II
briefly comments on related works. This is followed by the
description of the smart mirror including the design and
architecture of the proposed Smart Mirror in Section V.
Conclusion and some thoughts on future work are presented at last.
II. Related Works
In this article [1], the authors presented the design and
implementation of a multi-user smart mirror system created to
upgrade wellness and healthier lifestyle in the work
environment through credible strategies. With the help of RFID
reader, the interactive mirror recognizes different users
through their personal corporate ID card, which allows them to
access to their personalized user-interface.
In this article [2], the authors introduced a magic mirror table
which emphasizes family environment more that work
efficiency. The awareness of social emotions between family
members is an important step for designing intelligent service
on the smart home system.
In this article [3], the authors proposed a device which is
constructed from a reflective glass, LCD monitor, a Raspberry
Pi 3, a camera and a platform IoT oriented cloud computing,
where the information is acquired to show in the mirror,
through the consumption of web services. The mirror allows
the user photos to access the mirror using authentication with
facial recognition and user information to predict the news
related to the profile.
In this article [4], the authors proposed a smart mirror system
which can display an extended 3D representation of the end-
user with makeup features. Through the process the end-user
can try the different makeup applications in the smart mirror
without affecting the real face appearance. 3D
construction, IR based face tracking and OpenGL material
extensive rendering approach are incorporated by the system
to deliver the extended make-up face.
In this article [5], the authors presented the development of an
innovating appliances that optimizes the time while getting
ready for the day. The mirror is able to detect the presence of
human using Passive Infrared sensors and Wi-Fi connectivity.
This framework also introduces speech activated music player
which plays the music when the user gives a command.
In this article [6], the authors describe the arrangement of a
voice-controlled wall mirror with functionalities like voice
commands, face recognition etc.
In this article [7], the authors describe the design of a mirror
that provides a natural means of interaction through which the
end-user can control the household smart appliances and
access customized services.
In this article [8], the authors considered the difficulties of serving
documents like tax return forms, budget reports, regulatory laws
etc. through Web services, with the goal of completing the user’s
request in optimized time. The authors proposed a peer-to-peer
mirror system which is basically a Smart Mirror System which
collects information and data from peers.
In this article [9], the authors proposed a mirror table that analyzes
the expressions of the users using a camera. If the user is in
negative emotion, the system speaks positive sentences and plays
the favorite music to alleviate the user’s emotion. This mirror also
serves as a calendar for event reminding.
In this article [10], the researchers describe proposed an idea of
Smart Mirror using the concept of smart home-based Internet of
Things (IoT). Sonus technology is used in building the interaction
between Human and system. To acquire the system’s response
user’s need to provide instructions to the system orally. Sonus can
also have listening function offline for a customized hot word like
Alexa, Google Now, and Series. After the detection of hot word, it
will be streamed to the user’s speech recognition cloud service and
as a consequence the results will be received as well. Smart Mirror
system helps the user to manage the daily activities at ease and
solve many problems regarding house chores.
face
In this article [11], the authors opine that in order to satisfy
consumers’ needs towards intelligent life the Smart Mirror, which
is based on home automation system plays an important role.
Home appliances control, information acquisition, environmental
monitoring, entertainment and remote operation are the series of
intelligent experiences provided by the system.
In this article [12], the researchers emphasize on the people facing
serious difficulties in deciding which clothes to wear for which
events. After buying the clothes, the clothes are digitalized and the
digitalized image can be captured from the homepage of the
clothes shop or pictured and normalized by the hidden camera
attached to the Smart Dressing Mirror. The user can see if the dress
fits or not. The Smart Dressing Mirror can also recommend the
user a bunch of fashionable and suitable clothes for the user. At the
same time, the Smart Dressing Mirror will also recommend clothes
from e-Shopping stores. The dresses recommended from the e-
Shopping shops can also be bought by the user immediately.
In this article [13], the authors noticed that in the recent years,
there has been a progressive decline in the amount of time spent by
people in reading a newspaper on a daily basis due to the busy
schedules. In order to solve the problem, the authors proposed a
smart system in a house that will allow one to optimize time by
assisting user to save time along with updating the user with
current news.
In this article [14], the authors proposed a smart mirror which is a
life-logging device and does not need user’s intentional operations.
This system has a Kinect v2 RGBD camera and a 4K LCD display
built behind a half-transparent mirror to track the user’s motion.
Functions like appearance log, auto-recording of turning-around
motion, weather and traffic information display which can be
triggered by user speech and motion interface are implemented in
the system.
In this article [15], the researchers designed a smart mirror using
Raspberry Pi. Using the peripherals like Raspberry pi, LED
monitor covered with two-way acrylic sheet the smart mirror has
been implemented. The microcontroller connects to the internet to
display weather report of the specific location.
In this article [16], the researchers proposed a smart mirror that
functions as a mirror with some extra capabilities. In this project,
the researchers developed Smart Reflect – a software platform for
developing smart mirror applications. Modular, lightweight, and
extensible are the main features of the mirror. It also allows
developers to sidestep the sand boxed environment created by web
browsers. It supports plugins written in any programming
language.
In this article [17], the researchers developed an intelligent mirror
system that includes the weather information, time, user
information, and camera image taken from web services.
In this article [18], resarces proposed a smart mirror that plays a
huge role in advanced home automation. By the help of mobile
applications user profile is created which is then displayed in user-
interface of smart mirror. The mobile application contains a variety
of services that the user can choose from by simply adding and
dropping the desired ones to their created profile. Services include
medicine tracker, fitness tracker, calculator, Instagram,
motivational quotes, music player, etc. This application is
constantly scanning for any nearby Bluetooth-enabled devices and
measuring the RSSI of each device.
In this article [19], the researchers implemented a digital magazine
smart mirror using raspberry pi, LED display with two sided
acrylic sheet. They have built a web application which has two
parts: map and architecture of their campus. On the other hand,
they have created a database with information about courses,
placements, college news etc. The students can see the information
on the mirror and the database is operated by one admin. As for the
map, the students can input the source and destination place and
the map will show the traced path. \
In this article [20], the researchers proposed a smart mirror that is
featured with Amazon voice service and Google search engine. It
works like Apple Siri where the voice command is used in search
engine and the result is displayed accordingly. It also has voice
recognition using voice API and facial recognition using Open CV
library to identify individual.
 C. Prototype
V. Proposed Module
A.

VI. Implementation

A. HARDWARE

A. A series of hardware is needed in order to implement the

project. These are discussed below.

Connections:  Raspberry Pi:

1) Raspberry pi model 3b+ is connected with DC Power
Source It is the main device which is required to implement the
2) Monitor is connected to DC Power Source
3) RGB Strip is connected with DC Power Source project. We are going to use the Raspberry Pi’s Wi-Fi to
4) Monitor is plugged through HDMI cable to pi HDMI connect to cloud servers of various modules that we used in
port
smart mirror.
5) Keyboard and Mouse is connected to the R-pi’s input
USB port
6) R-pi’s built in Wi-Fi is used to connect to the internet for  Peripherals:
fetching data from the cloud servers.
We are going to need appropriate peripherals like keyboard
B. Block Diagram and mouse in order to interact with the Raspberry Pi.

Power Supply: We will need a power supply in order to run

the Raspberry Pi. An average power supply of 5-9 volt will be
enough to run the system.

 Display:

We are using 16:9 1080p Monitor that stands beside the

mirror to fit perfectly and give nice image quality.

 Mirror:

We used fashionable perfect sized mirror with black tint to

reflect user and show display perfect.
  RGB:
Module.register('MMM-connection-status', {
To increase the beauty of our smart mirror we used RGB
// Default module config.
lighting strip around the mirror to make it more attractive to
use it home. defaults: {

 SD Card: updateInterval: 1000 * 60, // every minute

We will require an SD card which will contain the operating

initialLoadDelay: 0,
system of the Raspberry Pi. All the information and data of
the Raspberry Pi will be stored in the SD card. animationSpeed: 1000 * 0.25,

},

B. SOFTWARE

// Define required translations.

In this project, after assembling all the hardware parts we had
to write the code to make the raspberry pi turns into smart getTranslations: function() {
mirror. So, we have to install the Magic Mirror into our
return {
Raspbian OS. The following command has to be executed in
Terminal to install Magic Mirror into our Raspberry Pi 'en': 'translations/en.json',

bash -c "$(curl -sL id': 'translations/id.json',

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/master/
installers/raspberry.sh)" 'es': 'translations/es.json'

And we have to download the latest version of Node.js as the

};
Smart Mirror is written is Java Script
},

// Define start sequence.

 curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_10.x | sudo -E
bash - start: function() {
 sudo apt install -y nodejs
Log.info("Starting module: " + this.name);

We had to configure for server use so in Config.js file we

have to use this command // Loop infinitely

var config = { this.loop();

address: "0.0.0.0", // default is "localhost"
port: 8080, // default },
ipWhitelist: ["127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1", "::1",
"::ffff:172.17.0.1"], // default -- need to add your IP here
...
};
For updating the software all we need to do is git pull in the // Override dom generator.
terminal
getDom: function() {
git pull && npm install
var wrapper = document.createElement('div');

We have used and configured several modules one example

if (window.navigator.onLine) {
codes are given below

wrapper.className = 'small';
[Internet Status ]It shows The connection status for our smart
mirror: such as Ping, Upload speed, Download Speed.
wrapper.innerHTML = VII. Step By Step Process
this.translate("INET_CONN_CONNECTED");

} else {

wrapper.className = 'normal bright';

wrapper.innerHTML =
this.translate("INET_CONN_NOTCONNECTED");

return wrapper;

},

// Infinite loop

loop: function() {

var self = this;

setTimeout(function() {

setInterval(function() {

// Refreshes the dom, using the getDom() function

self.updateDom(self.config.animationSpeed);

}, self.config.updateInterval); // Loop interval

}, self.config.initialLoadDelay); // First delay

});
 VIII. Performance Evaluation
As we have researched, we developed a lot of advanced ideas of
smart mirror that could have been implemented in our project.
Since, we had only primary knowledge about the vast features of
raspberry pi and short of time we were unable to add higher
configuration segments which would have enhanced our project.
IX. Conclusion
The goals of the smart mirror were aimed to reduce time needed in
a user’s daily routine and provide a merger of user and technology
that becomes an enhancement, not a new burden. A smart mirror
displays applications so that you can check the weather, local
news, etc. while you are getting ready in the morning. We have
developed a functional prototype to demonstrate our work. Overall,
the prototype provides an easily extendable framework that can be
utilized to provide even more functionality to the user. In future,
we have planned to add Google assistant and by help of IOT
implement control of appliances from the mirror. Also, after we are
done with Artificial Intelligence learning, we have thought of
proposing a mirror that will have different filters like Facebook
and Snapchat. The mirror would be touch screen and people can
change their filters and capture the mirror image through a switch
which will then be automatically send to the person’s mobile
phone.
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