Integrating Physical Devices with IOTA-Amazon Alexa
On28th August 2020, the IOTA community member, Hugo Gregersen, announced it is now possible to integrate the Amazon Alexa, a virtual assistant with the IOTA protocol. This integration will help check your balance on your wallets.
IOTA gotlaunched on 11th July 2016 as an open-source distributed ledger and digital currency formulated for the internet of things. Hugo described every detail of how to integrate Amazon Alexa with the IOTA protocol.
Amazon Alexa’s Functions on IOTA Protocol
Amazon Alexa will make it possible for an individual to check for the balance on their IOTA Trinity wallet. According to Gregersen, Amazon Alexa permits developers to create “Alexa Skill,” which functions like an activated voice on the smartphone application.
As it is in IOTA protocol, Amazon virtual assistant, Alexa, learns all the things that interconnect with other items and services.
Advantages Alexa Holds IOTA Users
The integration of IOTA with Alexa enables to better the user experience. Checking balances from one’s IOTA Trinity wallet is easy and fast. A person with many wallets only needs to give a voice command and get his wallets’ credit right away.
Regardless of your wallet connected to other devices or services, it is possible to get your balance with Amazon Alexa integrated withIOTA Trinity wallets. Users do not need other additional applications, and one only needs to install the Amazon Alexa app on their phones to check their crypto balances.
Integrating Amazon Alexa with IOTA Trinity Wallets
The first step to integrating Amazon Alexa with IOTA Trinity wallets is by creating a newAlexa skill. According to Gregersen, creating Alexa skill is possible through Alexa Developer Console. The creation of Alexa’s skill via Alexa Developer Console is possible through AWS Lambda. This AWS Lambda is an Amazon Cloud Platform which is also a part of Amazon Web Services,
Developers need to sign up for a free Alexa Developer account when creating an Alexa Skill and go to Alexa Developer Console throughthis link. Through that link, there various tools that ordinary people, apart from developers, can access when they want to create their own Alexa skill to integrate it with IOTA.
After creating Alexa skill, the user has to specify invocations, intent, and utterances. Doing this will teach Alexa how you will invoke and interact with her new skill. You then need to create and upload the AWS Lambda function for Alexa skill. Afterward, connect your Alex with the Lambda function. Alexa’s connection to the Lambda function helps Alexa know what Lambda function to use when performing a new skill. Hugo Gregersen explained every detail of the integration of Amazon Alexa with IOTA on hisMedium blog.