The Smart Mirror: Get fashionable with RFID

Filed in archive Retail on December 22, 2009

Now RFID will make you look good. Carnegie Mellon University students have gone ahead and created a device designed store dressing room which would offer recommendations on how to mix and match your clothes.

The mirror named as The Smart Mirror uses RFID affixed to merchandize tag for finding out what shoppers are wearing and on the basis of their choice recommend other items in the store which would match their looks and needs.

Whenever a customer tries out any outfit RFID sensors in the trial room would read the tag and on the basis of it images of other complementary products appear on the touch screen LCD panel which would help the customers to look even better.

The Smart Mirror prototype has already been installed at Charles Spiegel for Men in Squirrel Hill. It will cost around $1,000 per year for every device installed and stores having profit margin of more than $2.60 per item would surely be able to implement and gain from it.