Adokiye Charles Njaka

Bio: Adokiye Charles Njaka is an academic researcher from Prairie View A&M University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Home automation. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 12 citations.

Voice Controlled Smart Mirror with Multifactor Authentication

Abstract: Internet of Things, Smart Home, and Smart Cities have become hot topics in recent years. The development of these areas grows spirally due to the emergence of advanced smart devices. Smart mirrors are a new addition to the smart home family that has been getting a lot of attention nowadays by both commercial manufacturers and academia. This paper describes how a Raspberry Pi device can be used to enhance such mirrors with intelligence and security. The goal is to develop a cost effective intelligent mirror system that not only works as a regular mirror, but also be able to display various kinds of information, such as weather, time and location, current events, and users. The mirror can provide multimedia services while ensuring high end security across the entire system.

Internet of Things Based Smart Mirrors: A Literature Review

Abstract: Internet of Things (IoT) allows devices to communicate with each other in different and important places at the same time. Smart things are developed in ways that interact with each other, such as smart doors and smart homes. One of the most important IoT applications is the smart mirror. It is a mirror that acts as a reflective surface and as an interactive screen at the same time. Smart mirrors can be implemented for different purposes such as a simulator for medical students and an assistant in the fitting rooms. This paper presents a review upon applications of smart mirrors.

Towards Somaesthetic Smarthome Designs: Exploring Potentials and Limitations of an Affective Mirror

Abstract: Have you ever experienced a mirror that not only "sees" how you see yourself, but tells you how others perceive you? May such a smartmirror help not only adapt/improve oneself externally (look) but also internally (mood, emotions)? What are the expectations, fears (privacy)? The acceptance of such a smart thing requires approaches that go beyond technology-driven designs. In this paper, we report on the construction of an affective emotion-sensitive smartmirror as a smart piece of furniture for smarthomes and explorative studies with that system which address somaesthetics and aims to help inhabitants in self-reflection. The paper presents and discusses the prototype implementation and the results of a study in which the ideas, concerns, and experiences for/with the self-reflection capabilities of the affective smartmirror were explored by participants using the prototype as a technology probe.

LUX: Smart Mirror with Sentiment Analysis for Mental Comfort.

Abstract: As COVID-19 solidifies its presence in everyday life, the interest in mental health is growing, resulting in the necessity of sentiment analysis. A smart mirror is suitable for encouraging mental comfort due to its approachability and scalability as an in-home AI device. From the aspect of natural language processing (NLP), sentiment analysis for Korean lacks an emotion dataset regarding everyday conversation. Its significant differences from English in terms of language structure make implementation challenging. The proposed smart mirror LUX provides Korean text sentiment analysis with the deep learning model, which examines GRU, LSTM, CNN, Bi-LSTM, and Bi-GRU networks. There are four emotional labels: anger, sadness, neutral, and happiness. For each emotion, there are three possible interactive responses: reciting wise sayings, playing music, and sympathizing. The implemented smart mirror also includes more-typical functions, such as a wake-up prompt, a weather reporting function, a calendar, a news reporting function, and a clock.

MirrorME: implementation of an IoT based smart mirror through facial recognition and personalized information recommendation algorithm.

Abstract: We are living in the era of the fourth industrial revolution, which also treated as 4IR or Industry 4.0. Generally, 4IR considered as the mixture of robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), quantum computing, the Internet of Things (IoT) and other frontier technologies. It is obvious that nowadays a plethora of smart devices is providing services to make the daily life of humans easier. However, in the morning most people around the globe use a traditional mirror while preparing themselves for daily tasks. The aim is to build a low-cost intelligent mirror system that can display a variety of details based on user recommendations. Therefore, in this article, Internet of Things (IoT) and AI-based smart mirror is introduced that will support the users to receive the necessary daily update of weather information, date, time, calendar, to-do list, updated news headlines, traffic updates, COVID-19 cases status and so on. Moreover, a face detection method also implemented with the smart mirror to construct the architecture more secure. Our proposed MirrorME application provides a success rate of nearly 87% in interacting with the features of face recognition and voice input. The mirror is capable of delivering multimedia facilities while maintaining high levels of security within the device.

A Study Based on Advancements in Smart Mirror Technology

Abstract: Smart devices are exciting and upcoming advancements in the field of Internet of things (IOT). It is an application of Raspberry Pi, from furniture in the residential and commercial sector to everyday devices like watches and headphones, every object is becoming smarter and hence, making human lives much easier and efficient. Users can actively interact with these devices using voice commands. These smart devices can also assist a user in their personal daily activities as well as in medical use. Currently, various variations of the smart mirror based on software and hardware compatibility as well as based on applications and uses are available in the market. The goal of this paper is to understand the working, various applications, and purposes of the smart mirror according to the varying features in different versions. This paper critically analyses the different versions of the smart mirror and its different features and applications.