Virtual assistant with Amazon Alexa Virtual Assistant. Amazon Alexa is a virtual assistant developed by Amazon, first used in the Amazon Echo and the Amazon Echo Dot smart speakers developed by Amazon Lab126.

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▪ Alexa is always getting smarter
– Echo's brain is in the cloud, running on Amazon
Web Services so it continually learns and adds
more functionality over time.
– The more you use Echo, the more it adapts to
your speech patterns, vocabulary, and personal
preferences

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Alexa in GS1 Connected Car
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Alexa in GS1 Connected Car
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When a user gets in the car and tells ‘(user’s
name) gets on the car’ to Echo Dot, Alexa
recognizes the boarding and captures an
event containing data such as user’s name,
GS1 GSRN key, timestamp, VIN, and current
onboard status into EPCIS.
In the case of getting off, the user says
‘(user’s name) gets off the car’ to Alexa, and
then it also captures the information.

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Alexa in GS1 Connected Car
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OliotCarOut
replacing
arriving
{Driver’s name} {gets in} the car / My name is {Kevin}, I’m in. /…
Intent samples
{Driver’s name} {gets off} the car /…
Get the {history} of {replacing} {EngineOil} / Get the {name} of the
{current} {Airconditioner} / …
Intent names
Make each intents for each functions
Get the latest {destination} / Tell me {where} I went {last Thursday} /
… …….

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Alexa in GS1 Connected Car
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Alexa in Smart City
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▪ Amazon is strengthening collaboration with partner to
build ecosystem for smart city solutions
▪ Alexa is one of leading technology for smart ecosystem

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Alexa in Smart City
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▪ Cities and authorities are also involving into building
their own skills.
Immense potential of Alexa in building smart city

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Build custom Alexa skills
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▪ Alexa instruction structure:
– Wake word is used to turn Alexa into attentive state. The default wake
word is “Alexa,” but it can be customized in the device settings
– Launch phrase tells Alexa to trigger a certain skill. Launch phrases
include “ask,” “launch,” “start,” “show,” and many others
– Invocation name is the name of the skill you want to trigger
– Utterance tells Alexa what the skill should do (unless your launch
phrase is “start” or “launch”). Having static utterances would not give
you much flexibility, so Alexa allows you to add some dynamic parts
to the command, called slots

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Build custom Alexa skills
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▪ Alexa skill invocation:

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Build custom Alexa skills
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▪ There are many approaches to build a skills from
scratches
▪ Fortunately, it is effortless and quick to build an Alexa
skill with Flow.ai

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Build custom Alexa skills
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▪ Create utterances and intents with prebuilt content

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Build custom Alexa skills
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▪ Setup Alexa

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Build custom Alexa skills
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▪ Testing

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Demo
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