With the help of my partner, we wish to create a SmartMirror, a device which purpose is to help the user when waking up with numerous important information (like the agenda, weather...) and allow one to control his home with our sensors and such.
Me and my partner have tremendous problems waking up and, sometimes, we arrive late to our internship or school... But not anymore!
We present you RavenClaw's SmartMirror, official name: Iguelai!
It's composed by:
- an LCD screen,
- an acrylic sheet,
- an ABS structure,
- a Raspberry Pi,
- a microphone integrated camera and
- stereo speakers.
When you wake up and go to the bathroom (or any other division with the Iguelai), it will activate. It will show you, with animations, all the necessary information (weather, news, traffic...) in the main page. You can ask anything to the Iguelai and you'll get a visual and audio response like, for example, ask more about a certain news articleand it will generate a new screen with the full article.
On a personal level, it can show you your emails and agenda, if you synchronize your Google account. You can write a new email, a new item on your agenda, or almost anything as if you were on the website itself. To insert your credentials, you'll have to connect to the Iguelai via HTTP, like a website.
There's still another part to this project: the possibility of a cheap SmartHome!
For now, there are 3 main components, though more are planned:
- The first one is rather simple, but useful: temperature, humidity and air quality sensors, inside your home. The mirror will tell you this information whenever you ask, as well as slide showing them on the SmartHome page. This last sensor detects atmospheric toxicity, like CO2, enabling the ability to warn the user if there's an increase on toxic gases on the house, caused by fire, gas pipe leaks...
- This second component is a security system consisting on the installation of electric steel door strikes, unlocked by RFID (Radio-Frequency IDentification) or with the Iguelai. An RFID reader is installed beside the door and an RFID card is given to the user; to unlock the door you just have swipe your card!
- Last but not least, the most automatic of all 3: solar light sensors are installed so that the electrical lighting reacts to solar light (the more solar intensity, the weaker the lamps).
Concerning a previous similar project, BrightVision, our product is capable of more: it possesses a personal assistant, like Siri or Cortana (controlled by voice), the mirror effect is stronger (BrightVision's mirror has a weaker reflection index) and it has an extra function that allows the user to control all of his house with our sensors. All of this for much less money from our beloved founders.
Any donation helps! We make sure that all raised funds will go to the total or partial payment of the Iguelai, because of that, we humbly ask you to select the option (if you donate) that allows the funds to be sent even if we don't reach our financial goal.