CTIEMT Students design solar operated water resistant Smart Mirror

Jalandhar, July 3, 2019: It is next to impossible for us to leave our home in the morning without having a look at ourselves at least once in the mirror. Some people even communicate with themselves by looking in the mirror, but just imagine if your mirror could respond back too? Yes, it is possible nowadays since the technology has paved its way that deep into our daily way. Taking inspiration from this idea, a team of 3 students from the final year of B. Tech, Department of ECE, CT Institute of Engineering, Management and Technology (CTIEMT), namely Abhishek Thakur, Rahul Raj & Rohit Kumar Deol under supervision of HOD Dr Harjit Pal Singh have successfully designed their own Wi-Fi enabled ‘Smart Mirror’ with 32” diagonal display whose design encourages energy efficiency by utilizing only solar power for charging its battery. This is a two-way glass mirror which hides the entire electronic circuitry at its back and has a computer like screen in front, which can not only work as a mirror but is also touch enabled and displays many useful widgets like weather forecast, social media notifications, news etc. Telling about the project, one of the team members named Abhishek Thakur said, “This mirror has been designed using Raspberry-Pi platform and is sensitive to various voice commands via Google Assistant. It is very user friendly and incorporates various useful applications like Twitter, News, Weather, Calendar, Music, Clock, To-do list etc. The screen of this design has been kept water resistant so that it can also be mounted comfortably around kitchen sinks or bathrooms at home. This mirror is also capable of sensing the human presence around it to get activated which again helps in saving power.” Taking note of the efforts done by students in a really productive direction, CT Group Managing Director Manbir Singh congratulated the team and recognized their achievement by allotting them a discrete space in campus to install their project and showcase their talent.