Internet of Mirrors for Connected Healthcare and Beauty: A Prospective Vision

TL;DR

This paper envisions the Internet-of-Mirrors (IoM), a unified smart mirror platform integrating autonomous systems for personalized healthcare and beauty services, addressing current technological gaps and proposing future research directions.

Contribution

It introduces the IoM concept, combining smart mirrors with sensing and communication capabilities to provide personalized health and beauty services, bridging existing technological gaps.

Findings

Overview of current state-of-the-art technologies

Proposed vision of IoM as an integrated platform

Discussion of challenges and future research directions

Abstract

With the shift towards smart objects and automated services in many industries, the health and beauty industries are also becoming increasingly involved in AI-driven smart systems. There is a rising market demand for personalised services and a need for unified platforms in many sectors, specifically the cosmetics and healthcare industries. Alongside this rising demand, there are two major gaps when considering the integration of autonomous systems within these sectors. Firstly, the existing smart systems in the cosmetics industry are limited to single-purpose products and the employed technologies are not widespread enough to support the growing consumer demand for personalisation. Secondly, despite the rise of smart devices in healthcare, the current state-of-the-art services do not fulfil the accessibility demands and holistic nature of healthcare. To bridge these gaps, we propose integrating autonomous systems with health and beauty services through a unified visual platform coined as the Internet-of-Mirrors (IoM), an interconnected system of smart mirrors with sensing and communication capabilities where the smart mirror functions as an immersive visual dashboard to provide personalised services for health and beauty consultations and routines. We aim to present an overview of current state-of-the-art technologies that will enable the development of the IoM as well as provide a practical vision of this system with innovative scenarios to give a forward-looking vision for assistive technologies. We also discuss the missing capabilities and challenges the development of the IoM would face and outline future research directions that will support the realisation of our proposed framework.