Hodor
Solving Everyday
Problems with Tech
Martin Aichriedler ⧫ Nithish Raghunandanan
7th June 2018
Everybody focused on
their work
A Normal Working Day
● 50 Employees x 2-3
times
● 10 -15 External services
(DHL, UPS..)
100+ Interruptions /
Day ( 1 every 4 mins)
Hodor - A personal doorman for the office
Game of Thrones
Existing Solutions
Solution
● We love Slack!
● Internet of Things (IoT)
● Microservices
● Serverless Computing
Door + Intercom
Relay + RasPi Dataplicity Slackbot
Office door + Intercom
Door + Intercom
Relay + RasPi
Dataplicity Slackbot
Relay + Raspberry Pi
Door + Intercom Relay + RasPi
Dataplicity
Slackbot
Dataplicity
● Get the door opening
service online
● Remote shell access to
your Raspberry Pi
● Free
Door + Intercom Relay + RasPi Dataplicity
Slackbot
Slack Bot
● Small Python Web App
● AWS Lambda
● Zappa
Conclusion
● Rapid Development: 2 Evenings
● Cheap (< €40) & easy to integrate
● Buy Services / Software over
Building
● Lean: Pareto Principle (80/20 Rule)
Outlook
● 3D Print a case
● Detect the ring and integrate
with Slack
● Amazon Alexa or Google
Assistant integration
Live Demo
App
● Built using cross
platform Flutter.io
IoT Button
References
Source Code:
https://github.com/KI-labs/Hodor
Blog Post:
https://medium.com/ki-labs-engineering/hod
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Interested in working with us?
www.ki-labs.com
Martin Aichriedler
m.aichriedler@kigroup.de
@maichriedler
Nithish Raghunandanan
n.raghunandanan@kigroup.de
@nithishr

Hodor: Solving Everyday Problems with Tech