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International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Engineering & Technology (IJARCET) Volume 5 Issue 3, March 2016 ASMB (Advanced Smart Media Box) Shiyaz.T 1, Sharfudheen.S2, Ranjith.U 3, Vipin.R 4,RemyaRamachandran5 1, 2, 3, 4 5 Student, Assistant professor, Department of Electronics & Communication, NCERC, Thrissur Abstract -Smart TV is one which can connect to internet and was believed that it would take the role of PC. Based on can stream media from internet. Buying a brand new smart the fundamental Smart TV concept, legacy Smart TV TV is a very expensive. In this project a system is introduced system architecture consists of the server providing that can be able to turn an old CRT TV into a Smart TV. It contents and applications, set-top box clients for home is just like a digital photo album to do a slideshow of photos appliances, and reasonable network devices with Internet from USB storage or from an online repository like Dropbox, Picasa, Flickr etc. It can play music, videos and connection. play some cool games from USB storage. The smart TV can Even though it had been improved its system and be controllable by an android phone. It has many features functions continuously, the independent Smart TV system like Screen mirroring, a mini web server, it has the ability of was requested to upgrade its overall. The system can voice recognition and it plays like a language translator. It process contents of only video and image which are also acts as a DLNA server for accessing files over the DLNA already pre-defined or set as a standard. Legacy Smart supported phones. Raspberry pi is used in this project which TV platform was usually designed on a closed private is a credit-card sized general purpose Linux computer environment and needed customization for each company. designed and manufactured by the Raspberry Pi It was hard to add functions and difficult to change its Foundation. The Pi features a system-on-a-chip setup built around the Broadcom BCM2836 processor (a tiny but fairly structure. Recently new types of Smart TV approaches powerful mobile processor commonly used in cell phones) were introduced by renowned IT companies like Apple, that includes a CPU, GPU, audio/video processing, and other Google, and Samsung to overcome weakness and functionality all on a low-power chip. restriction of legacy Smart TV system. Those were iTV of Apple, Android TV 2.0 of Google, and Smart HUB of Key words: Smart TV, Raspberry pi,DLNA, HDMI, USB Samsung. According to the advent of these brand new system architectures and infrastructures with cloud I. INTRODUCTION computing environment, they anticipated that Smart TV The current trend to move to web-based television has would be a core element of killer contents & applications challenged the traditional television value chain by in IT resources with gradual increase of smart devices. allowing any IP-based network, wired or wireless, to Android OS and iOS smart devices are very common deliver high quality television content. Smart TV is an personal devices and also have steadily growing numbers advanced form of legacy TV and has been discussed as of apps of covering various genres and versatile subjects. one of promising devices for Post PC. Up to now, Smart Regarding mobile apps, iOS apps were exceeded 700 TV is gradually changing its system architecture by thousand in 2013 and Android apps were also exceeded adding functions to increase its usage and coverage. The 700 thousand at the same time. Each new Smart TV suggested project is a new platform design to add more system targeted to be a rich-content Smart TV and to give flexibility and to cover weak points of the previous a strong impact to the industry by providing a lot of apps systems. Consequently, the rapid adoption of web-based for customers to feel much more added values compared TV applications is fuelled by user demands for social and to that of the legacy Smart TV system of having simple user-generated multimedia content, in addition to the broadcasting capability [1]. traditional linear and on-demand offerings. As well, the The Internet has come a long way over the last 30 years. new television is social, allowing exchange of ratings and Old-fashioned IPv4 is giving way to IPv6 so that every comments between viewers. device on the Internet can have its own IP address. A smart TV may also be referred to as a “connected TV”. Machine-to-machine communication is on the rise, Essentially, it’s a TV that’s connected to the Internet. It enabling devices to exchange and act upon information has built-in apps to take advantage of this - for example, a without a person ever being involved. The scope and smart TV would likely have apps for playing videos from scale of the Internet have changed. Industry leaders Netflix and YouTube. Smart TVs generally also have predict that the number of connected devices will surpass other built-in apps such as a web browser, Facebook, 15 billion nodes by 2015 and reach over 50 billion by Twitter, LinkedIn, Angry Birds, and so on. The original 2020. The challenge for the embedded industry is to concept of Smart TV was started to add functions like unlock the value of this growing interconnected web of Internet and Web2.0 Specification to legacy TV and it 557 ISSN: 2278 – 1323 All Rights Reserved © 2016 IJARCET International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Engineering & Technology (IJARCET) Volume 5 Issue 3, March 2016 devices, often referred to as the Internet of Things, and also playing video [5]. The Raspberry Pi is describing it as the ultimate tool in future surveillance. manufactured in three board configurations through This network has the power to reshape cities [2]. licensed manufacturing deals with Newark element14 The main feature of this project is home media center. It (Premier Farnell), RS Components and Egoman. There can be used as a digital photo album to do a slideshow of are various surveillance systems such as camera, CCTV, photos from USB storage or from an online repository etc. In these types of surveillance systems the person who like Dropbox, Picassa and Flickr. The home media center is stationary and is located in that particular area can only uses Kodi which is a free and open-source media player view what is happening in that place. If the user is software developed by the XBMC Foundation, a non- moving from one place to another can be able to keep profit technology consortium. Kodi is available for track of what is happening in that particular place. Also multiple operating systems and hardware platforms, with another advantage is that it offers privacy on both sides a software 10-foot user interface for use with televisions since it is being viewed by only one person. The other and remote controls. It allows users to play and view most major advantage is that it is a simple circuit and the videos, music, such as podcasts from the internet, and all operating system used here is Raspbian OS. Raspbian OS common digital media files from local and network has to be installed so that the image can be transmitted to storage media. It also have features of an application the smartphone [4]. photo booth it can able to take photos using an USB camera and it automatically post that photos on an active II. DESIGN OVERVIEW user defined twitter account [5]. It has a feature of Airplay, which allows to play music on The general block diagram of ASMB is shown below. TV simultaneously when music is played on a smartphone The core component of this project is Raspberry Pi. without the need of actually copying it. It also has the Many other components are added to Raspberry Pi to screen mirroring feature by which video content can be effectively communicate with the outer world. played simultaneously on a smart phone and on TV [6]. The camera attached with this system is enabled by the Power USB Keyboard Supply motion detection [4]. One of the main advantages of this USB HUB USB Mouse system is that it can be controlled using a smart phone, the Display media center on the system can be controlled using a (TV) Pen Drive Raspberry smart phone [2]. It also has the features of voice pi Camera Switch Wi-Fi Model B recognition and language translations. Smart TV is an advanced form of legacy TV and has been discussed as Power Switch USB GPIO one of promising devices for Post PC. Up to now, Smart Camera Interface TV is gradually changing its system architecture by & S/W Microphone Relay 1 adding functions to increase its usage and coverage. S/W 2 However, previous approaches were insufficient because they were lying on the legacy broadcasting paradigm or Fig. 1 Block diagram dependent on hardware. Raspberry pi which is a credit card sized computer is used The Raspberry Pi offers another path encouraging here (Raspberry pi model B revised version). It supports experimentation by lowering the cost of accidentally various Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, Open Suse breaking trying to be making. The computer was etc. Many micro-USB power adapters are available in the conceived of by EbenUpton, formerly a lecturer at the market for powering Raspberry pi but the output of the University of Cambridge U.K created the Raspberry Pi power supply should be 5V, 2A. Raspberry pi requires a Foundation to make it a real product. Upton is also a power adapter with minimum current requirement of veteran of several years at chip maker Broadcom, 1.8A.