Projects → Voice-Controlled Smart Environment for Hotels
The client is a worldwide hotel and hospitality network looking for a scalable and flexible IoT platform.
The smart environment IoT platform improves the overall hotel guest experience and comfort. The environment includes a variety of electrical equipment: lights, gas, smoke and security sensors, thermostats, door locks, water and electric meters, and media and entertainment systems.
Hotel guests get a convenient system to control the environment either with the help of a mobile application, or via voice commands using Amazon Echo.
Highlights
- Сloud-based and highly scalable system on Amazon Web Services and DeviceHive;
- The mobile friendly web UI and the voice control UI via Amazon Alexa, which demonstrates how easy it is to use and control devices with the thermostat as an example;
- Fully secured solution with HTTPS/WebSocket communication protocols;
- Architecture that made it possible to create new interfaces cost effectively using the RESTful service.