The document provides an overview of the Internet of Things (IoT) and how sensors can unlock new applications and insights. It discusses how buildings, vehicles, and cities are becoming networks of sensors and learning systems. It then summarizes some key observations on IoT, including that things are not static assets and can get better over time through software updates. The document also discusses Amazon Web Services' (AWS) IoT platform and tools for connecting devices, collecting and analyzing data, and building applications. It provides examples of potential IoT applications in areas like predictive maintenance, smart cities, and first responders.
Compute Without Servers – Building Applications with AWS LambdaAmazon Web Services
AWS Lambda enables developers to build scalable applications without managing servers. Come learn how AWS Lambda’s event driven approach helps build backend ingestion systems, real time stream processing, and scalable API backends. We will deep dive and provide live demo into the different approaches that customers have taken to building applications with AWS Lambda, the typical architectures that customers use and best practices for authoring, deploying, and managing the functions.
Markku Lepisto, Principal Technology Evangelist, Amazon Web Services, APAC
Announcing AWS Greengrass - January 2017 AWS Online Tech TalksAmazon Web Services
AWS Greengrass is a new software platform for running local compute, data caching and messaging on connected devices. You can process device data locally, even if a device is temporarily disconnected.
Learning Objectives:
• Learn about the capabilities, features and benefits of AWS Greengrass
• Learn about the different use cases
• Learn how to get started using AWS Greengrass
In this hands-on workshop, the idea is that we provide attendees with sample code to simulate telemetry from devices (Wind Turbines), sample training data to train the machine learning models. AWS IoT rules engine will use machine learning for predicting failures and control the device when failure is predicted.
My slides from the re:Invent Recap Conferences.
The AWS Well-Architected Framework enables customers to understand best practices around security, reliability, performance, and cost optimisation when building systems on AWS. This approach helps customers make informed decisions and weigh the pros and cons of application design patterns for the cloud. In this session, you'll learn how to follow AWS guidelines and best practices. By developing a strategy based on Amazon Web Services's Well-Architected Framework, you will be able to significantly increase the frequency of code deployments and reduce deployment times. As a result, you will be able to deliver more scalable, dynamic and resilient applications.
Compute Without Servers – Building Applications with AWS LambdaAmazon Web Services
AWS Lambda enables developers to build scalable applications without managing servers. Come learn how AWS Lambda’s event driven approach helps build backend ingestion systems, real time stream processing, and scalable API backends. We will deep dive and provide live demo into the different approaches that customers have taken to building applications with AWS Lambda, the typical architectures that customers use and best practices for authoring, deploying, and managing the functions.
Markku Lepisto, Principal Technology Evangelist, Amazon Web Services, APAC
Announcing AWS Greengrass - January 2017 AWS Online Tech TalksAmazon Web Services
AWS Greengrass is a new software platform for running local compute, data caching and messaging on connected devices. You can process device data locally, even if a device is temporarily disconnected.
Learning Objectives:
• Learn about the capabilities, features and benefits of AWS Greengrass
• Learn about the different use cases
• Learn how to get started using AWS Greengrass
In this hands-on workshop, the idea is that we provide attendees with sample code to simulate telemetry from devices (Wind Turbines), sample training data to train the machine learning models. AWS IoT rules engine will use machine learning for predicting failures and control the device when failure is predicted.
My slides from the re:Invent Recap Conferences.
The AWS Well-Architected Framework enables customers to understand best practices around security, reliability, performance, and cost optimisation when building systems on AWS. This approach helps customers make informed decisions and weigh the pros and cons of application design patterns for the cloud. In this session, you'll learn how to follow AWS guidelines and best practices. By developing a strategy based on Amazon Web Services's Well-Architected Framework, you will be able to significantly increase the frequency of code deployments and reduce deployment times. As a result, you will be able to deliver more scalable, dynamic and resilient applications.
Monitoring, Hold the Infrastructure - Getting the Most out of AWS Lambda - AW...Amazon Web Services
Just as we got a hang of monitoring our server-based applications, they take away the server. How do you monitor something that doesn’t exist? What metrics matter most in a serverless world? In this session, we will look at how applications are different in a AWS Lambda-based world and how to monitor them. Join us as we work our way through the stack and demonstrate how to capture the health and performance of your services.
An Introduction to AWS GovCloud (US) | AWS Public Sector Summit 2016Amazon Web Services
Learn about AWS GovCloud (US) features and benefits, use cases and workloads appropriate for GovCloud, and qualification requirements to access and use the region. You will learn how to move sensitive data and regulated IT workloads to the cloud by addressing specific regulatory and compliance requirements.
AWS re:Invent 2016: Unlocking the Four Seasons of Migrations and Operations: ...Amazon Web Services
To keep pace with today’s hybrid IT landscape, enterprises have to innovate faster while ensuring compatibility with legacy IT systems. They also need to reduce costs and increase business value through responsive infrastructure backed by flexible, intelligent, and context-aware agile IT processes. To do this, they need service assurance in four distinct areas:
• Security
• Operations management
• Workload migration
• Enterprise IT integration
The challenge lies in achieving this assurance not through traditional methods but through extreme automation, driven by enterprise-centric business and IT policies, while embracing the ability to learn continuously and be proactive with respect to the environment’s context.
As an Advanced and Premier consulting partner in the AWS Partner Network (APN), Infosys leverages its AWS investments to jointly develop solutions that help clients drive greater business value faster.
As a bonus, you’ll also hear from one of our key clients, who shares their experience of working with Infosys on their AWS migration needs. This session is sponsored by Infosys.
AWS Competency Partner
Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides on-demand computing resources and services in the cloud, with pay-as-you-go pricing. This session provides an overview and describes why companies are flocking to the cloud so quickly.
IT teams in K12 wear many hats. From helping with technology in the classroom to managing district wide operations, it’s a balancing act every day. Join this webinar on Thursday, June 29 and learn how the cloud enables district IT teams be as agile and flexible as the students they serve, even during unexpected emergencies. The cloud offers numerous benefits including lower costs, faster experimentation, pay-as-you-go usage, and no physical infrastructure to manage. You’ll learn: • What is the cloud and why it matters to K12 • Best practices to ensure smooth system operations during peak registration, graduation, and testing periods • How to prepare for inevitable emergencies with long-term record storage in redundant cloud environments • How one district has saved up to 50% on IT costs over five years, helping them focus on teaching and learning • How to build redundancy into your school’s IT plan, allowing you to access records at any time
Introduction to Cloud Computing with Amazon Web Services-ASEAN Workshop Serie...Amazon Web Services
The AWS Workshop Series Online is a series of live webinars designed for IT professionals who are looking to leverage the AWS Cloud to build and transform their business, are new to the AWS Cloud or looking to further expand their skills and expertise. In the first of this series, we will cover 'Introduction to Cloud Computing with Amazon Web Services'.
Understand the core concepts of Cloud Computing. Whether you want to run applications that share photos to millions of mobile users or you’re supporting the critical operations of your business, a cloud services platform provides rapid access to flexible and low cost IT resources.
Chris Munns takes us on a journey to Innovation. He presents AWS' latest and greatest announcements with a particular focus on Serverless - Amazon Lambda, and Automation - AWS Step Functions. Presented in Montreal at the AWS Innovate event.
Lesson 1 in Cloud – Read Instructions Carefully - session sponsored by VocusAmazon Web Services
Making it happen in the Cloud can be easy, but with more cool stuff available, if you don't setup correctly, you will complicate your end goal. In this session, learn how some early adopter organisations have learned by doing, made the mistakes, so you don't. A must for everyone who can see the benefits, but needs to map a way forward.
Speakers: Luke Mackinnon, Chief Technology Officer, Vocus and Brett Looney, Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services
Monitoring, Hold the Infrastructure - Getting the Most out of AWS Lambda - AW...Amazon Web Services
Just as we got a hang of monitoring our server-based applications, they take away the server. How do you monitor something that doesn’t exist? What metrics matter most in a serverless world? In this session, we will look at how applications are different in a AWS Lambda-based world and how to monitor them. Join us as we work our way through the stack and demonstrate how to capture the health and performance of your services.
An Introduction to AWS GovCloud (US) | AWS Public Sector Summit 2016Amazon Web Services
Learn about AWS GovCloud (US) features and benefits, use cases and workloads appropriate for GovCloud, and qualification requirements to access and use the region. You will learn how to move sensitive data and regulated IT workloads to the cloud by addressing specific regulatory and compliance requirements.
AWS re:Invent 2016: Unlocking the Four Seasons of Migrations and Operations: ...Amazon Web Services
To keep pace with today’s hybrid IT landscape, enterprises have to innovate faster while ensuring compatibility with legacy IT systems. They also need to reduce costs and increase business value through responsive infrastructure backed by flexible, intelligent, and context-aware agile IT processes. To do this, they need service assurance in four distinct areas:
• Security
• Operations management
• Workload migration
• Enterprise IT integration
The challenge lies in achieving this assurance not through traditional methods but through extreme automation, driven by enterprise-centric business and IT policies, while embracing the ability to learn continuously and be proactive with respect to the environment’s context.
As an Advanced and Premier consulting partner in the AWS Partner Network (APN), Infosys leverages its AWS investments to jointly develop solutions that help clients drive greater business value faster.
As a bonus, you’ll also hear from one of our key clients, who shares their experience of working with Infosys on their AWS migration needs. This session is sponsored by Infosys.
AWS Competency Partner
Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides on-demand computing resources and services in the cloud, with pay-as-you-go pricing. This session provides an overview and describes why companies are flocking to the cloud so quickly.
IT teams in K12 wear many hats. From helping with technology in the classroom to managing district wide operations, it’s a balancing act every day. Join this webinar on Thursday, June 29 and learn how the cloud enables district IT teams be as agile and flexible as the students they serve, even during unexpected emergencies. The cloud offers numerous benefits including lower costs, faster experimentation, pay-as-you-go usage, and no physical infrastructure to manage. You’ll learn: • What is the cloud and why it matters to K12 • Best practices to ensure smooth system operations during peak registration, graduation, and testing periods • How to prepare for inevitable emergencies with long-term record storage in redundant cloud environments • How one district has saved up to 50% on IT costs over five years, helping them focus on teaching and learning • How to build redundancy into your school’s IT plan, allowing you to access records at any time
Introduction to Cloud Computing with Amazon Web Services-ASEAN Workshop Serie...Amazon Web Services
The AWS Workshop Series Online is a series of live webinars designed for IT professionals who are looking to leverage the AWS Cloud to build and transform their business, are new to the AWS Cloud or looking to further expand their skills and expertise. In the first of this series, we will cover 'Introduction to Cloud Computing with Amazon Web Services'.
Understand the core concepts of Cloud Computing. Whether you want to run applications that share photos to millions of mobile users or you’re supporting the critical operations of your business, a cloud services platform provides rapid access to flexible and low cost IT resources.
Chris Munns takes us on a journey to Innovation. He presents AWS' latest and greatest announcements with a particular focus on Serverless - Amazon Lambda, and Automation - AWS Step Functions. Presented in Montreal at the AWS Innovate event.
Lesson 1 in Cloud – Read Instructions Carefully - session sponsored by VocusAmazon Web Services
Making it happen in the Cloud can be easy, but with more cool stuff available, if you don't setup correctly, you will complicate your end goal. In this session, learn how some early adopter organisations have learned by doing, made the mistakes, so you don't. A must for everyone who can see the benefits, but needs to map a way forward.
Speakers: Luke Mackinnon, Chief Technology Officer, Vocus and Brett Looney, Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services
According to TechSci Research report “China LNG Market Demand & Supply Analysis, By End-User, By LNG Terminals Forecast and Opportunities, 2011 – 2021”, the market for imported LNG is projected to grow at a CAGR of over 15% during 2016 - 2021
Revolutionary IoT App Ideas for the Near FutureTechAhead
When it comes to IoT, we mainly think of home automation systems. But IoT has great use in other fields too like agriculture, mining, manufacturing, public health and sanitation, traffic control, waste management, energy dissemination and security. IoT truly pervades each and every sphere of life we can imagine.
Buildings contribute to 40 percent of global energy consumption, and are expected to do so even more in the coming future. This consumption directly influences the use of fossil fuels that have significant environmental impacts. Although renewable energy sources have shown tremendous promise, it is anticipated that most of the global energy generation will still use fossil fuels. Therefore the need for energy efficiency in buildings is critical, and the main objective of a 'smart building' is to reduce and manage building energy consumption without compromising occupant comfort and operational efficiency. Within buildings, Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems contribute to significant energy consumption. The other share is consumed by lighting and plug loads. Smart buildings employ different types of sensors in HVAC and other mechanical systems which makes these systems more intelligent and adaptive. Data from sensors and associated controllers are now being used for building energy analytics and the technological advancements made in this field is very promising.
VISIONFC – an NFC Forum event: The future of the Internet of Things + NFC pre...NFC Forum
At the recent VISIONFC sessions hosted by the NFC Forum, Forrester, HID, and Bluebite shared their perspective on what the future holds for NFC and the Internet of things.
Forrester - The NFC Opportunity In The IoT
Forrester's keynote presentation focuses on the opportunities and challenges for NFC in sectors such as the Internet of Things (IoT), mobile payment, and retail.
HID - Abandon Status Quo: NFC Technology is More than Just Payments
Presentation includes innovative use cases how HID Global is integrating NFC technology to secure Internet of Things applications incorporating frictionless cloud authentication and mobile technology. Three distinct applications will be demonstrated: 1) Promotional Marketing Engagement – Tribecca Film Festival, 2) Home Healthcare to track visits and care provided from healthcare professionals, and 3) Security Patrols implemented across corporate offices or campuses.
Bluebite - A Day in the Life with IoT
This presentation will equip and empower brands with an impactful role before, during, and after the consumer path to purchase. By leveraging this ecosystem, a trove of value can be derived from IoT and adapted to mainstream retail markets. It is therefore our prerogative to demonstrate this cycle as a demo at VISIONFC.
Visit http://nfc-forum.org/ to learn more about NFC.
Buildings contribute to 40 percent of global energy consumption, and are expected to do so even more in the coming future. This consumption directly influences the use of fossil fuels that have significant environmental impacts. Although renewable energy sources have shown tremendous promise, it is anticipated that most of the global energy generation will still use fossil fuels. Therefore the need for energy efficiency in buildings is critical, and the main objective of a 'smart building' is to reduce and manage building energy consumption without compromising occupant comfort and operational efficiency. Within buildings, Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems contribute to significant energy consumption. The other share is consumed by lighting and plug loads. Smart buildings employ different types of sensors in HVAC and other mechanical systems which makes these systems more intelligent and adaptive. Data from sensors and associated controllers are now being used for building energy analytics and the technological advancements made in this field is very promising.
This is a Q&A Webinar with Chris Irwin, Business Development Director at Tridium Europe. We discuss why the IoT in Buildings really matters and why we need to integrate different systems in buildings to unlock data silos.
Tracko: Asset Tracking and Real Time Locationg Solution Onyx Beacon
Track assets on the go, using Bluetooth beacons & mobile technology. A new generation RTLS solution for logistics & manufacturing professionals & warehouse and factory staff to quickly locate the machines, equipment and inventory they need, within their premises. Without expensive readers & manual scanning/location updates.
Improving Energy Efficiency of Intelligent Buildings with Smart IoT RetrofitsMark Benson
Presented at AHR in Las Vegas on February 1st, 2017.
ABSTRACT: With fast approaching energy regulations and increased competitive pressures, reducing energy consumption has never been more important for building managers. This talk introduces a series of smart Internet of Things (IoT) retrofit technologies that can be used to meet regulatory requirements, reduce operational expenses, and increase competitive position.
Jeremy Cowan's AWS user group presentation "AWS Greengrass & IoT demo"AWS Chicago
"AWS Greengrass & IoT demo" - by Jeremy Cowan, Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services
This presentation was given at the AWS Chicago user group event on 22 March 2017 on the Internet of Things (IoT)
https://www.meetup.com/AWS-Chicago/events/237737145/
@jicowan
RTLS 2.0: Moving from Asset Tracking to Asset ManagementCenTrak
Healthcare facilities have come to realize the importance of equipment management and its organization-wide impact and interdependence with staff productivity, operations, asset performance and lifecycle costs. With the average rate for asset/equipment utilization at approximately 35%, asset tracking has become a viable area of improvement that can be achieved with measurable results.
Selecting an accuracy-based asset tracking solution that delivers 100% certainty enables a hospital to transition from asset tracking to more complex asset management and supply chain management use cases.
- Enterprise visibility to asset location and status
- Reduces time searching for equipment
- Increases staff satisfaction
- Automates PAR level management
- Reduces shrinkage
- Improves clinical workflow
- Integrates with CMMS
Mihai Gheza's BSc Diploma Project at "Transilvania" University of Brasov, Romania
A prototype of RTLS (Real Time Location System) using the ZigBee wireless mesh networking protocol, Received Signal Strength (RSS) for distance estimation and Trilateration for positioning.
Studied with a Texas Instruments CC2420 Development Kit.
According to the ITU, the Internet of Things is defined as a global infrastructure for the information society, enabling advanced services by interconnecting (physical and virtual) things based on existing and evolving interoperable information and communication technologies.
Such a phenomenal infrastructure, demands strong skills, and presents large opportunities for the AWS Ecosystem. With our customers in mind, we will have AWS Principal Business Development Manager - Mark Relph, presenting IoT Case Studies and the AWS IoT Platform.
Why does connecting your physical devices to the cloud create more value for the user? How can connectivity enhance user experience? Why does connecting your things enhance your business model? In this session, Kyle Roche, GM of AWS IoT, will discuss the power of connecting your devices to the cloud and share AWS vision and latest products and features. Kyle provides an overview of real customer use cases and shares trends we are seeing among IoT customers. He will also bring some key customers on stage to share their experiences.
AWS re:Invent 2016: Internet of Things (IoT) Edge and Device Services (IOT202)Amazon Web Services
AWS IoT edge and device services make it easy to get started and scale quickly along with your business needs. Medical equipment, industrial machinery, building automation, and simple device to trigger services, are just a few physical-world use cases that are benefiting from elastic cloud computing while meeting the local execution requirements and real time responsiveness. This session covers the intersection between the device and cloud industries, and the way AWS and our customers will shape the future of those industries together. We will showcase how our customers are using AWS IoT Button, the IoT Device SDKs, and other AWS services to improve the existing business models, invent new way of working, and balance the benefits of the cloud services with the need for local execution.
AWS IoT is a managed cloud platform that allows connected IoT devices to easily and securely interact with cloud applications and other devices. In this session, we will discuss how constrained devices can leverage the AWS IoT service to send data to the cloud and receive commands back to the device using the protocol of their choice. We will discuss how devices can connect securely using MQTT and HTTP protocols, and how developers and businesses can leverage the AWS IoT Rules Engine, Thing Shadows, and accelerate prototype development using AWS IoT Device SDKs. Finally, we will cover new features released since the launch of AWS IoT including integration with Amazon Machine Learning and Amazon ElasticSearch Service.
Code in the Cloud- Deploy on Microcontroller and Edge DevicesAmazon Web Services
Level: Intermediate
In this session, you'll learn how to connect microcontroller-based embedded devices and extend AWS to your more powerful, IoT edge devices. We'll also show you how how to apply cloud programming to your devices to create powerful, end to end solutions. This session will cover the use of Amazon FreeRTOS, AWS Greengrass, AWS IoT Device Management, AWS IoT Analytics and Amazon Sagemaker.
Who Should Attend: Developers, Coders, Engineers, System Administrators, IT Managers, Solutions Architects and Product Heads.
An introductory session on Internet of Things (IoT) to understand how to extract more value from your connected devices. During the session, we’ll look at AWS IoT-specific services, such as AWS Greengrass and AWS IoT.
In particular, we’ll explain how they help you collect and send data from your connected devices to the cloud, analyse it and use it to manage your devices better. With less time spent collecting, loading and analysing data, you can focus on high-value projects. As part of the session, you will hear real industry examples, including a presentation from Intel on specific Intel IoT technologies, such as the Intel Developer Kit, and a case study that shows how Rio Tinto is using IoT to improve its operations. The session will also give you practical steps for getting started with IoT prototyping yourself. Speakers: Ian Massingham, AWS Evangelist and Scott Mordue, Intel IoT Developer Enabling Manager
Connecting your devices at scale, ft. Discovery - SVC205 - New York AWS SummitAmazon Web Services
AWS IoT Core is a managed cloud service that lets connected devices easily and securely interact with cloud applications and other devices. In this session, we discuss how AWS IoT Core can help you securely connect and manage devices, process and act on device data, and read and set device state. We are also joined by Discovery, which has built a data pipeline—a special-purpose, highly scalable, performant, flexible publish-subscribe system designed to collect, store, stream, and query events—built entirely on AWS. A representative from Discovery discusses how the company used AWS IoT Core to substantially improve subscriber integrations.
In this general session, AWS IoT experts will present an in-depth look at the current state of the Internet of Things. Learn about trends and industry use cases. Hear how other organizations are using AWS IoT to connect devices to the cloud. Explore some of the most recent IoT announcements as we kick off the IoT re:Source Mini Con.
Integrierte Anwendungsfälle - Von der einzelnen Nachricht, über zeitnahe Anal...AWS Germany
In der Sessions zum Thema Integrierte Anwendungsfälle werden folgende Punkte besprochen:
Gewinnen Sie relevante Informationen aus Ihren Gerätedaten mit agilen Business Intelligence Lösungen
Integrieren Sie Ihre Gerätenetze mit software-gestützten Geschäftsprozessen
Ermöglichen Sie automatisierte Entscheidungen für autonome Netzwerke mit Machine Learning
Informieren Sie sich jetzt über das kostenlose Nutzungskontingent von AWS: http://amzn.to/1Qh9stj
AWS IoT solutions for the connected home bring devices and services together for an integrated, autonomous experience that improves a consumers’ lives. Connected home experiences include everything from voice-controlled lights, house-cleaning robots, machine learning-enabled security cameras, and Wi-Fi routers that troubleshoot for you. Additionally, given that voice control is becoming pervasive across smart homes, these devices can also benefit from using voice services like Alexa for an even more seamless customer experience. Thanks to decreasing costs and increasing options for connectivity, these smart home devices, sensors, and tools can be interlinked to create real-time, contextual, and smart experiences for consumers. Learn how in this session.
AWS IoT and Alexa in the connected homeDuncan Purves
AWS IoT and Alexa in the connected home - presentation by Andrew Hood, Amazon Web Services at the IoT Thames Valley Meetup on 19th June, 2019.
https://www.meetup.com/Internet-of-Things-Thames-Valley/
Essential Capabilities of an IoT Cloud Platform - AWS Online Tech TalksAmazon Web Services
Learning Objectives:
- Learn what core capabilities are necessary for a successful IoT cloud platform
- Undestand how the core capabilities work together
- Learn what and how standards are beginning to take shape
Building home security solutions at scale, ft. Comcast - SVC206 - New York AW...Amazon Web Services
IoT applications are rapidly becoming more intelligent, especially when it comes to home security solutions such as entry sensors, motion detectors, home automation, and video monitoring. Combine IoT with serverless video streaming, analysis, and playback, and you have a powerful solution at a scale and price that make business sense. In this session, learn how to build intelligent home security applications using Amazon Kinesis Video Streams and AWS IoT services. We are joined by a representative from Comcast, which migrated to AWS to power their Xfinity Home security cameras and focus on secure storage of video data from customers worldwide.
Similar to Sensors Everywhere: Unlocking the Promise of IoT | AWS Public Sector Summit 2016 (20)
Come costruire servizi di Forecasting sfruttando algoritmi di ML e deep learn...Amazon Web Services
Il Forecasting è un processo importante per tantissime aziende e viene utilizzato in vari ambiti per cercare di prevedere in modo accurato la crescita e distribuzione di un prodotto, l’utilizzo delle risorse necessarie nelle linee produttive, presentazioni finanziarie e tanto altro. Amazon utilizza delle tecniche avanzate di forecasting, in parte questi servizi sono stati messi a disposizione di tutti i clienti AWS.
In questa sessione illustreremo come pre-processare i dati che contengono una componente temporale e successivamente utilizzare un algoritmo che a partire dal tipo di dato analizzato produce un forecasting accurato.
Big Data per le Startup: come creare applicazioni Big Data in modalità Server...Amazon Web Services
La varietà e la quantità di dati che si crea ogni giorno accelera sempre più velocemente e rappresenta una opportunità irripetibile per innovare e creare nuove startup.
Tuttavia gestire grandi quantità di dati può apparire complesso: creare cluster Big Data su larga scala sembra essere un investimento accessibile solo ad aziende consolidate. Ma l’elasticità del Cloud e, in particolare, i servizi Serverless ci permettono di rompere questi limiti.
Vediamo quindi come è possibile sviluppare applicazioni Big Data rapidamente, senza preoccuparci dell’infrastruttura, ma dedicando tutte le risorse allo sviluppo delle nostre le nostre idee per creare prodotti innovativi.
Ora puoi utilizzare Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) per eseguire pod Kubernetes su AWS Fargate, il motore di elaborazione serverless creato per container su AWS. Questo rende più semplice che mai costruire ed eseguire le tue applicazioni Kubernetes nel cloud AWS.In questa sessione presenteremo le caratteristiche principali del servizio e come distribuire la tua applicazione in pochi passaggi
Vent'anni fa Amazon ha attraversato una trasformazione radicale con l'obiettivo di aumentare il ritmo dell'innovazione. In questo periodo abbiamo imparato come cambiare il nostro approccio allo sviluppo delle applicazioni ci ha permesso di aumentare notevolmente l'agilità, la velocità di rilascio e, in definitiva, ci ha consentito di creare applicazioni più affidabili e scalabili. In questa sessione illustreremo come definiamo le applicazioni moderne e come la creazione di app moderne influisce non solo sull'architettura dell'applicazione, ma sulla struttura organizzativa, sulle pipeline di rilascio dello sviluppo e persino sul modello operativo. Descriveremo anche approcci comuni alla modernizzazione, compreso l'approccio utilizzato dalla stessa Amazon.com.
Come spendere fino al 90% in meno con i container e le istanze spot Amazon Web Services
L’utilizzo dei container è in continua crescita.
Se correttamente disegnate, le applicazioni basate su Container sono molto spesso stateless e flessibili.
I servizi AWS ECS, EKS e Kubernetes su EC2 possono sfruttare le istanze Spot, portando ad un risparmio medio del 70% rispetto alle istanze On Demand. In questa sessione scopriremo insieme quali sono le caratteristiche delle istanze Spot e come possono essere utilizzate facilmente su AWS. Impareremo inoltre come Spreaker sfrutta le istanze spot per eseguire applicazioni di diverso tipo, in produzione, ad una frazione del costo on-demand!
In recent months, many customers have been asking us the question – how to monetise Open APIs, simplify Fintech integrations and accelerate adoption of various Open Banking business models. Therefore, AWS and FinConecta would like to invite you to Open Finance marketplace presentation on October 20th.
Event Agenda :
Open banking so far (short recap)
• PSD2, OB UK, OB Australia, OB LATAM, OB Israel
Intro to Open Finance marketplace
• Scope
• Features
• Tech overview and Demo
The role of the Cloud
The Future of APIs
• Complying with regulation
• Monetizing data / APIs
• Business models
• Time to market
One platform for all: a Strategic approach
Q&A
Rendi unica l’offerta della tua startup sul mercato con i servizi Machine Lea...Amazon Web Services
Per creare valore e costruire una propria offerta differenziante e riconoscibile, le startup di successo sanno come combinare tecnologie consolidate con componenti innovativi creati ad hoc.
AWS fornisce servizi pronti all'utilizzo e, allo stesso tempo, permette di personalizzare e creare gli elementi differenzianti della propria offerta.
Concentrandoci sulle tecnologie di Machine Learning, vedremo come selezionare i servizi di intelligenza artificiale offerti da AWS e, anche attraverso una demo, come costruire modelli di Machine Learning personalizzati utilizzando SageMaker Studio.
OpsWorks Configuration Management: automatizza la gestione e i deployment del...Amazon Web Services
Con l'approccio tradizionale al mondo IT per molti anni è stato difficile implementare tecniche di DevOps, che finora spesso hanno previsto attività manuali portando di tanto in tanto a dei downtime degli applicativi interrompendo l'operatività dell'utente. Con l'avvento del cloud, le tecniche di DevOps sono ormai a portata di tutti a basso costo per qualsiasi genere di workload, garantendo maggiore affidabilità del sistema e risultando in dei significativi miglioramenti della business continuity.
AWS mette a disposizione AWS OpsWork come strumento di Configuration Management che mira ad automatizzare e semplificare la gestione e i deployment delle istanze EC2 per mezzo di workload Chef e Puppet.
Scopri come sfruttare AWS OpsWork a garanzia e affidabilità del tuo applicativo installato su Instanze EC2.
Microsoft Active Directory su AWS per supportare i tuoi Windows WorkloadsAmazon Web Services
Vuoi conoscere le opzioni per eseguire Microsoft Active Directory su AWS? Quando si spostano carichi di lavoro Microsoft in AWS, è importante considerare come distribuire Microsoft Active Directory per supportare la gestione, l'autenticazione e l'autorizzazione dei criteri di gruppo. In questa sessione, discuteremo le opzioni per la distribuzione di Microsoft Active Directory su AWS, incluso AWS Directory Service per Microsoft Active Directory e la distribuzione di Active Directory su Windows su Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Trattiamo argomenti quali l'integrazione del tuo ambiente Microsoft Active Directory locale nel cloud e l'utilizzo di applicazioni SaaS, come Office 365, con AWS Single Sign-On.
Dal riconoscimento facciale al riconoscimento di frodi o difetti di fabbricazione, l'analisi di immagini e video che sfruttano tecniche di intelligenza artificiale, si stanno evolvendo e raffinando a ritmi elevati. In questo webinar esploreremo le possibilità messe a disposizione dai servizi AWS per applicare lo stato dell'arte delle tecniche di computer vision a scenari reali.
Amazon Web Services e VMware organizzano un evento virtuale gratuito il prossimo mercoledì 14 Ottobre dalle 12:00 alle 13:00 dedicato a VMware Cloud ™ on AWS, il servizio on demand che consente di eseguire applicazioni in ambienti cloud basati su VMware vSphere® e di accedere ad una vasta gamma di servizi AWS, sfruttando a pieno le potenzialità del cloud AWS e tutelando gli investimenti VMware esistenti.
Molte organizzazioni sfruttano i vantaggi del cloud migrando i propri carichi di lavoro Oracle e assicurandosi notevoli vantaggi in termini di agilità ed efficienza dei costi.
La migrazione di questi carichi di lavoro, può creare complessità durante la modernizzazione e il refactoring delle applicazioni e a questo si possono aggiungere rischi di prestazione che possono essere introdotti quando si spostano le applicazioni dai data center locali.
Crea la tua prima serverless ledger-based app con QLDB e NodeJSAmazon Web Services
Molte aziende oggi, costruiscono applicazioni con funzionalità di tipo ledger ad esempio per verificare lo storico di accrediti o addebiti nelle transazioni bancarie o ancora per tenere traccia del flusso supply chain dei propri prodotti.
Alla base di queste soluzioni ci sono i database ledger che permettono di avere un log delle transazioni trasparente, immutabile e crittograficamente verificabile, ma sono strumenti complessi e onerosi da gestire.
Amazon QLDB elimina la necessità di costruire sistemi personalizzati e complessi fornendo un database ledger serverless completamente gestito.
In questa sessione scopriremo come realizzare un'applicazione serverless completa che utilizzi le funzionalità di QLDB.
Con l’ascesa delle architetture di microservizi e delle ricche applicazioni mobili e Web, le API sono più importanti che mai per offrire agli utenti finali una user experience eccezionale. In questa sessione impareremo come affrontare le moderne sfide di progettazione delle API con GraphQL, un linguaggio di query API open source utilizzato da Facebook, Amazon e altro e come utilizzare AWS AppSync, un servizio GraphQL serverless gestito su AWS. Approfondiremo diversi scenari, comprendendo come AppSync può aiutare a risolvere questi casi d’uso creando API moderne con funzionalità di aggiornamento dati in tempo reale e offline.
Inoltre, impareremo come Sky Italia utilizza AWS AppSync per fornire aggiornamenti sportivi in tempo reale agli utenti del proprio portale web.
Database Oracle e VMware Cloud™ on AWS: i miti da sfatareAmazon Web Services
Molte organizzazioni sfruttano i vantaggi del cloud migrando i propri carichi di lavoro Oracle e assicurandosi notevoli vantaggi in termini di agilità ed efficienza dei costi.
La migrazione di questi carichi di lavoro, può creare complessità durante la modernizzazione e il refactoring delle applicazioni e a questo si possono aggiungere rischi di prestazione che possono essere introdotti quando si spostano le applicazioni dai data center locali.
In queste slide, gli esperti AWS e VMware presentano semplici e pratici accorgimenti per facilitare e semplificare la migrazione dei carichi di lavoro Oracle accelerando la trasformazione verso il cloud, approfondiranno l’architettura e dimostreranno come sfruttare a pieno le potenzialità di VMware Cloud ™ on AWS.
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) è un servizio di gestione dei container altamente scalabile, che semplifica la gestione dei contenitori Docker attraverso un layer di orchestrazione per il controllo del deployment e del relativo lifecycle. In questa sessione presenteremo le principali caratteristiche del servizio, le architetture di riferimento per i differenti carichi di lavoro e i semplici passi necessari per poter velocemente migrare uno o più dei tuo container.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
11. Products that Get Better with Time
Sonos connected speakers
have evolved using data
over the last ten years
without the customer
replacing anything
20. AWS Platform for IoT
App
Backend
API
Gateway
Lambda
Edge Service
CloudFront
Companion
Apps
Analytics
RedShift
Data
Storage
S3
SDKs
C, iOS
Android
Machine
Learning
Machine
Learning
DynamoDB
APN Partner Solutions
Kinesis
Ingestion,
Protocols &
Security
Device
Shadows
Mobile
Hub
EMR
Reference
Hardware
Rules
Engine
AWS IoT
21. Our strengths
• Focus on security, end to end
• It’s a serverless, managed service
• Built on modern architecture:
messages, events, rules, functions
– at scale
• Front door to all of AWS
• Any chipset
• Any operating system
• Protocol agnostic
• Cost follows usage
23. Predictive maintenance
A comprehensive set of
diagnostic and operational
insights to evaluate and
monitor equipment and
system performance,
identify assets at risk of
failure, and avoid costly
downtime
25. Congestion charge example
Intel DK100
Gateway
AWS IoT
Gateway
Sensor data
from 8
separate
channels fed
into A/D inputs
of DK100
Dynamic Congestion Charging Road
Signs
Cloud-based dashboard (UI) on client
PC/tablet
Things registry
DynamoDB
MQTT broker
AWS EC2
Things Shadows
AWS IoT
26. First responder - example
• A Wireless Services Gateway based upon
Intel Edison connects with peripheral
devices such as the Intel Basis watch,
bodycams, and other environmental
sensors. It encrypts the data and employs
an LTE modem to transmit the
information to the command center.
• The command center aggregates the data
streams from individual first responders
and provides a UI dashboard enabling
monitoring of this information by
command center personnel.
28. Customer example – Rachio Sprinkler Control
Actions
Connected Sprinkler
Controller
Lambda Function
Easily calibrate soil, vegetation, slope, sun
exposure, and nozzle types.
Choose From National And Personal Weather Stations
To Get The Most Accurate Weather Data Available.
No One-size-fits-all Experience - You Have The
Freedom To Make Adjustments Over Time And Tune
Your Rachio To Your Unique Landscape.
33. M E E T
E C H O
The First
Endpoints
of Alexa
The Echo is the first and best-known
endpoint of the Alexa Ecosystem…
The Echo was built to make life
easier and more enjoyable.
We also recently launched
Fire-TV with Alexa integrated
directly into the device.
Bringing Alexa and voice to two of
the best-selling products on
Amazon.com
& F I R E T V
34. Create
Great Content:
ASK is how you connect
to your consumer
T H E A L E X A E C O S Y S T E M
Supported by two powerful offerings
A L E X A
V O I C E
S E R V I C E
Unparalleled
Distribution:
AVS allow your content
to be everywhere
Automated Speech
Recognition (ASR)
&
Natural Language
Understanding (NLU)
A L E X A
S K I L L S
K I T
Counterfeit goods: identify risk of fake products based on counterfeit serial numbers.
Customer adoption models: targeting promotional campaigns more specifically based on likelihood of adoption for a customer: Amazon Student, Dash, Mom.
Item classification: eliminate need for human classification of new grocery items, into categories and subcategories
Sales lead ranking: Prioritize businesses who are likely to be successful deals on Amazon Local.
Search intent: detect intent of query and route to the appropriate category
Global demand estimation: estimate ASIN demand in new regions
Customer support: improve quality and efficiency of customer support experience through social media processing, routing of new information/discovery calls to correct department, detect ‘where’s my stuff’ calls and route appropriately.
Display ads: increase the click through rate of displayed ads by selecting the creative with the best performance for a customer segment: better experience for the customer as more relevant ads.
Like the robots, the connected things (or the assets) aren’t static. Their state, location, behavior can change over time.
Tesla introduced assisted driving with an over the air update, then the summon feature…
The connected things are getting better over time not diminishing in value as we have grown to expect w/ electronics
Back to the point of IoT being plural though... Imagine how much more tesla can do when the car is communicating w/ smart street lights, other cars, etc.
I bring up that it’s plural b/c of 2 things… on one side, you have the analysts and media hyping the volume of IoT. The 20B or whatever getting connected
On the other side, the approach to today’s solutions is still much about connecting the single thing. Which is fine... And expected actually
Gartner hype cycle, at the peak, up next is trough... Real things start to shake out and iot will have to really address the multiple dimensions of today’s businesses.
Take amazon for example… if we build apps to monitor a single robot, we’d have quite a bit of a challenge managing our logistics operations.
Hundreds of thousands or robots like these from Amazon Robotics in our fulfillment centers globally
These are all working in concert with our commerce business to get packages to customers in a quick, safe and reliable manner.
1 hour in some areas! (starter kit plug?)
Like the robots, the connected things (or the assets) aren’t static. Their state, location, behavior can change over time.
Tesla introduced assisted driving with an over the air update, then the summon feature…
The connected things are getting better over time not diminishing in value as we have grown to expect w/ electronics
Back to the point of IoT being plural though... Imagine how much more tesla can do when the car is communicating w/ smart street lights, other cars, etc.
First, How many of you own Sonos. Ok Thanks.
Intro Sonos.
Founded in 2002, Sonos first started shipped its connected products in 2006 ...
so, if you’re not aware, we have a decent size delivery business. In addition to the trucks, we have other methods of delivery…
My next point, the purpose of the thing doesn’t dictate how it can be measured
Totally different type of machine for package delivery.
Lockers providing secure access for pickup in metro areas
And, of course the drone.
The point again… various ways of delivering packages... Machines w/ the same function. VERY different requirements for monitoring and management.
IoT solutions have multiple dimensions in their customer profile as well
Out prime:now service uses contract drivers in some areas
In Europe, we’ve partnered with Audi and DHL to deliver packages to the truck of your car
Own trucks, lease trucks, open customer’s trunk, employ some drivers, contract other, use partnerships… and the center of it is still the customer.
Lot of perspectives to the same challenge
We built AWS IoT with that experience in mind. AWS IoT is a FULLY MANAGED service for connected devices.
Keep that in mind as we discuss the features and you explore your options for IoT partners. IoT is plural and you often don’t know the what extent… we grow w/ your business.
Device Gateway (Messages... These messages typically come from devices...)
Secured by... (new patterns specifically for devices)
Rules Engine (looking at all the messages… pull in context or send for integrations)
Device Shadow
Registry (metadata, device mgmt features)
Cloud Service – it’s updated like one!
Since launch:
-Jokes, Star Trek Nimoy, Rocks paper Scissors, sports scores, Pandora, home automation, ITTT.
Do not use the following (COPPA):
-Dr. Suess
Thank you for taking the time to meet with us today to discuss how Alexa can affect the way you connect with customers.
And how to continue to evolve your product through the power of voice.
Alexa, the platform, has been incredibly well received by consumers and tech enthusiast alike – and we are excited to both share and discuss ways in which you can leverage this technology.
As ideas circulated on what this would look like, the feeling we got is voice is similar to the way computing changed how customers gathered information and connected with others across the world; or the way cloud computing changed how we manage our data. Our belief is voice technology is how people will interact with products moving forward.
You can imagine a world where we are asking for restaurant recommendations, choosing a restaurant and making dinner reservations, and receiving turn-by-turn directions to the restaurant all while driving in your car. Or you’re asking for recipe ideas based on what’s in fridge, getting step by step directions, and asking and receiving suggested wine pairings all while making dinner. Or you wake starting the coffee maker while still in bed.
What’s exciting is this already becoming a reality. The kitchen is where a lot of Echos live today, and customers are already asking for recipe ideas, controlling their entertainment (w/ music and podcasts), setting timers, etc. all in a hands-free way.
And of course the smart home is already a huge industry; and customers can set their security alarm, control their lighting, heat and garage doors w/out having to open up their laptop or find their phones.
Much of this is made possible because of voice technology.
As you can probably guess, we believe voice is a huge part of the future and think its pertinent for you to be thinking about how your product will connect with customers through voice right now.
The Echo is the first and best-known endpoint of the Alexa Ecosystem.
And the first device that allows you to connect with customers, through voice, using Alexa
As mentioned earlier, Alexa and The Echo device was built to make life easier and more enjoyable
Quick Timeline:
Echo Launched late 2014 to Prime members only and by invite only
Even with those restrictions, the product Exceeded our Expectations: We had over a month of orders on backlog
With that success, we launched the Echo to all Amazon.com customers in June of 2015.
And at the same time, we released the SDK for developers to hook into and build
But the Echo is actually a pretty simple device – it’s a speaker, a microphone, and it connects to the internet.
Actually, to be fair it has two downward firing speakers 7 really powerful microphones
But the real magic happens when customers wake the device by saying the word “Alexa”.
And the real beauty of Alexa is the platform.
Echo is the first endpoint for Alexa, but products of all kinds can integrate with the technology.
This is seen with the FireTV which recently launched with Alexa integrated directly into the device, bringing the voice experience directly to a visual endpoint and tying her to a process dying to be freed from the ever growing buttons on a remote control.
While FireTVs don’t have speakers, they do connect to a product that does… so it works.
LEAVE OUT?
This first version is the tip of the iceberg, our product roadmap includes continued updates and features… think of what we’ve done with Amazon Instant Video, Appstore
Now, other times we launch products with a big bang hoping to set a new standard… think Kindle E-reader
Echo falls in-between these two types of scenarios
We knew voice technology was big and wanted to get a MVP out ASAP
But had no idea it would make such a bang from the start
I previously mentioned the Alexa ecosystem, so let’s spend a little time talking about what that means.
The Alexa Ecosystem is supported by two important frameworks that provide unparalleled distribution and ways to connect with your customer.
On one side we have ASK (Alexa Skills Kit) which empowers brands and developers to create rich voice experiences for their consumers;
On the other side is AVS (Alexa Voice Service), which ensures that the places that Alexa can go are endless
All you Have to Do Is ASK (What is the Alexa Skills Kit?)
The ASK is our SDK, read human….our way of making the voice experience via Alexa possible.
ASK gives you the ability to create new voice-driven capabilities (also known as skills, think Apps) for Alexa using the new Alexa Skills Kit (ASK).
You can connect existing services to Alexa in minutes with just a few lines of code.
You can also build entirely new voice-powered experiences in a matter of hours, even if you know nothing about speech recognition or natural language processing.
AVS: Serving a Platform Agnostic Voice Experience
Let’s start with AVS, it’s through the Alexa Voice Service that, hardware manufacturers and other participants in the new and exciting world of the Internet of Things (IoT) can incorporate an Alexa-driven voice experience into their devices.
Any device that has a speaker, a microphone, and an Internet connection can integrate Alexa with a few lines of code.
This enables a platform agnostic growth strategy that ends with your consumer having one, if not multiple seamless touch-points to a world by voice.
Just imagine what that means…
While right now there are two Amazon provided endpoints, picture everything from a car to a microwave to a pen, and more...all enabled to deliver an experience by voice