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ALX307

Voice-Enabling Your Home

and Devices with Amazon Alexa

and Brookfield Residential A Deep Technical Dive into Alexa and AWS IoT

Presented By:

Mark Gregas

Brookfield

Residential

Director of IT

Nathan Grice

Senior Solutions

Architect

Amazon Alexa

Smart Home

Bringing Voice-Enabled

Home Automation

to the Masses

Who is Brookfield Residential?

● Leading North American Homebuilder

and Land Developer

● 12 Major Markets

● 50+ Years of Experience

Creating the

Best Places to Call Home

Innovation

Brookfield Residential Concept Homes

2008

The Hybrid Home

2009

The Energy

Lab Home

2015

The PureBlue Home

Built for a Typical American Family

Voice-Enabled Home Automation

Home Security Garage Door Ceiling FansWindow Blinds

Voice-Enabled Home Automation

Indoor and Outdoor

Lighting

Heating and

Air Conditioning

Fireplace Energy

Consumption

Voice-Enabled Home Automation

Schedule

Reminders

Home

Entertainment

Wi-Fi-Enabled

Appliances

Lawn Sprinklers

Creating a Virtual Sales Manager

● “Alexa, Ask Brookfield to tell me about The Smart Home”

● “Alexa, Ask Brookfield to tell me about Brookfield Residential”

● “Alexa, Ask Brookfield to tell me about this Community”

“Alexa, turn on Let’s Relax”

● Blinds Lower in Owner’s Bath Suite

● Overhead Lights Dim

● Overhead Star Panels Illuminate

● LED Candles Light Up

● Soothing Spa Music Plays

Criteria for Selecting Products

● Native Technology

● Nothing Complicated

● Off the Shelf

● Affordable

● Alexa Compatible

Why CAT 6/POE?

● Better Way to Power Devices

● Data and Power in One Cable

● Providing Greater Bandwidth

● Leader in the Market

● Better Connectivity

● Better Integration

● Supports Nearly 10,000 Consumer Devices

Key Vendor Partners

Oversight

and Consulting

Custom Skills

Programming

Alexa Skills

Programming

Home Security

and Wiring

Future-Proofing

● Additional CAT 6 Wires and Switches

● High-End Wireless Access Points

● Conduit for Future Solar Panels

● Pre-Wiring for Speakers in Ceiling

The Future Is Unlimited.

Develop It.

Make It Happen.

B U I L D I N G V O I C E E X P E R I E N C E SNathan Grice, Smart Home Solutions Architect Amazon Alexa

Components of a Smart Home partner solution

Alexa Smart Home

Skill

Device Cloud Devices

Alexa Skills

Flash Briefing Custom skills Smart Home skillsAudio Player

Smart Home

• Unified experience across

partner devices

• Language model is defined for

you

• Support for Lights, Switches,

Thermostats, AC Units, Fans

and Scenes

Alexa Skills – Smart Home vs. Custom

Custom

• Unique experience created by

the skill developer

• Developer and UX team

responsible for language

model and interactions

• Support custom devices or

existing smart home devices

with unique functionality

“Alexa, turn on the lights” “Alexa, ask Rachio to water zone one”

Our 3 components

Alexa Smart Home

Skill

Device Cloud Devices

Raspberry Pi 3 Smart Home API Skill AWS IoT

Deep Dive on the device

Control DeviceDevice

Raspberry Pi 3 Controller for your power Lamp (from Italy)

Device Cloud = AWS IoT

Device Cloud Things

• Create thing type or single thing

using the console or AWS CLI

• Things contain gettable/settable

properties known as thing

shadows

• Thing Shadows are JSON

properties reflecting last known

state, regardless of current

connected state of physical

device

Alexa Smart Home Skill – Lamp Controller

• Run in AWS Lambda

• Need to support device discovery

• Need to support device control

SKILL CODE

Skill Code

Discovery

Control

Skill Code – handleDiscovery()

Skill Code – handleControl()

Skill Code – updateIoTDevice()

AWS IoT CONSOLE

AWS IoT – Create Thing

AWS IoT – Thing Shadow

PI CODE

Raspberry Pi - reinvent.js

DEMO

Call Flow

DeviceUser Alexa

ServiceDevice Cloud

“Alexa, turn on the lamp”

TurnOnRequest

(applianceId)updateIoTDevice(‘on’)

”Ok”

AWS Lambda

mp3

TurnOnConfirmation

thingShadows.on

(‘foreignStateChange’)

Add more things

Alexa Smart Home

Skill

Device Cloud Devices

Your

environmentSmart Home API Skill AWS IoT

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“Alexa, turn on Let’s Relax”

● Blinds Lower in Owner’s Bath Suite

● Overhead Lights Dim

● Overhead Star Panels Illuminate

● LED Candles Light Up

● Soothing Spa Music Plays

Thank you!

Mark Gregas

Brookfield

Residential

Director of IT

Nathan Grice

Senior Solutions

Architect

Amazon Alexa

Smart Home

Thank you!

Github: https://github.com/ngrices/reinvent2016

Twitter: @AlexaDevs

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