Our client is an innovative start-up in the hospitality industry. They wanted to develop a solution that can provide next level of user experience providing room services, news updates, automation of controls and entertainment from same device.
The solution consists of the following components
Smart Mirror
Technology : C, Amazon voice services, Websockets
Raspberry pi with additional plug in card for microphone is used to implement smart mirror. Smart mirror accepts alexa voice commands and uses the alexa cloud to process the commands. Results of the are displayed on the mirror.
Customer Cloud/Web Application
Technology: AWS lambda, Node.js
Information specific to the user, hotel etc are stored in the cloud application. Based on the type of voice command, the Alexa cloud invokes APIs from the customer cloud application to process the command, which sends the response back to the smart mirror for specific actions.