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Architecture diagram
Inspiration
Our App Office Insights enables employees to schedule meeting rooms based on their availability using Voice Commands. Finding meeting rooms and scheduling meetings has always been a challenge for developers who just want to brainstorm and pair program their way to building successful apps. Also, we wanted the ability to tell folks in a meeting room when their meeting is about to end and book a room available if they needed more time.
What it does
You can look up room availability, locate them, book a room, track an ongoing meeting and request assistance using employee and meeting rooms Microsoft exchange accounts. All the meeting rooms have microsoft accounts and thats how they are currently booked.
How We built it
The App brings together Amazon Echo, Rasberry Pi, Pi modules and at the heart of everything Microsoft Office. Echo is controlled using AWS Lambda which takes in the Voice Commands. These commands are relayed to The backend Java app which uses Exchange Web Services as part of Office 365 to Send emails, lookup calendars, map Microsoft accounts to location and much more.
Included an image for the different systems involved. Please do view our demo video.
Challenges we ran into
Integrating all the different systems together was a challenge. Also, getting an admin account in to post calendar invites.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We created an excellent example of Internet of Things to make our lives around scheduling meetings at work easier, faster and way more fun.
What I learned
IOT and also how easy it is now to integrate with microsoft APIs. The gateway to office APIs is very useful since most of the companies already have microsoft accounts for employees. Many more apps can be built on top of the office APIs
What's next for Office Insights
Our App will be able to leverage integrating with any Wearable or device that takes voice commands.
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