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Alexa Skills Projects

You're reading from Alexa Skills Projects Build exciting projects with Amazon Alexa and integrate it with Internet of Things

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788997256

Length 250 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Alexa Skills

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Home Automation

Author (1):

Madhur Bhargava

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Table of Contents (9) Chapters

Preface

1. What is Alexa? FREE CHAPTER

2. Hello World, Alexa!

3. Hands-Free Experience with Alexa

4. Let's Play Factly with Alexa

5. Making Alexa Talk About CryptoCurrencies

6. Home Automation with Alexa

7. The Future of Voice-Based Personal Assistants

8. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Designing the Ambience Manager Skill

Our Ambience Manager Skill will have at least five moving parts, including a User that interacts with Amazon Echo, which in turns communicates with the AWS Lambda, which in turn fetches the temperature information from the Firebase cloud. The temperature information will be pushed to the Firebase cloud via the Mobile Device, which reads it from the Ambient Sensor. The flow of information is shown in the following diagram:

Figure 6.2: Data flow in Ambience Manager Skill

The ambient sensor will communicate the ambient parameters, that is, temperature and humidity, to a mobile app over BLE.

Note

To learn more about BLE, visit https://www.bluetooth.com/news/pressreleases/2009/12/17/sig-introduces-bluetooth-low-energy-wireless-technologythe-next-generation-of-bluetooth-wireless-technology.

This will eventually upload the ambient parameters to the Firebase backend.

Note

Firebase is a real-time database by Google. To learn more about Firebase, visit https://firebase...

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Authors (1)

Madhur Bhargava

Madhur Bhargava

Madhur Bhargava is specialized in Wireless and Mobile Computing from CDAC ACTS Pune, India. He started his career at Electronic Arts as a software engineer working on mobile games. He later addressed problems in personalized healthcare, leveraging the power of mobile and voice computing. He is proficient in various mobile/embedded technologies and strives to be a software generalist. He believes that good software is a result of talented individuals working together as a communicative team in an Agile manner. He likes to spend time with his family, read, and watch movies.

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