Smart Mirror Using Raspberry Pi for Human Monitoring and Home Security

Abstract

The Smart mirror is a system in which the regular mirror is converted into a smart device. The Smart mirror is designed using Raspberry Pi and a touch enabled screen. The designed system is capable of acting like a regular mirror in case of normal mode of operation and it acts like a smart mirror in a triggered mode of operation. The Smart mirror thus designed is an interactive system which is capable of accepting two modes of input namely touch and mobile based controls. The system is designed to display weather information, temperature and latest news on the mirror. The system is primarily designed as a home Security and Human Monitoring system. The proposed design is thought of as a package bundled with better features, which not only just displays information over screen, but also can be used for providing security. The system is built using hardware units like Raspberry Pi 3 model, touch screen, mobile device, camera and Python coding is used for software part. The system provides security against Intrusion in home. It is done using Background Subtraction along with Simple Frame Difference Approach. Once Intrusion is detected the administrator is sent alert message along with the photo of intruder. The Human Monitoring is implemented using Machine learning technique Yolo with OpenCV. During human monitoring mode of operation, if the Human under monitoring moves out of the vision range of camera, the administrator of Smart Mirror will be sent alert message. Using the mobile commands, the administrator can see the video streaming using camera fixed on the Smart Mirror.