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Voice control for Elica cooker hoods

Alice Assistant skill

General information

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Elica is an Italian manufacturer of stove hoods, boilers and ovens

Customer

Task

Create a voice control for Elica kitchen hoods and connect them to the smart home system

Smart home skill with Alice Voice Assistant. Only available for Elica customers

Solution

How it works

02/

The customer downloads the Elica Connect app

Binds the device to Yandex

Controls the cooker hood through Alice Assistant

Connects the cooker hood to the app

Commands for the cooker hood

03/

Switching the hood On/Off

Control of ventilation modes

Lighting control: changing the color shades and light intensity

Pending commands. E.g. "Decrease brightness by 70% in 4 hours".

Status check: what's wrong with the hood, what's the operating mode, whether the light is on

Quote

«Voice control was supposed to become a feature of Elica cooker hoods. Our customer wanted to put the Yandex logo on the appliances, so that customers would immediately understand that the hoods are easy and convenient to operate»

Разработчик проекта

Антон Шипов

Stages of development

04/

Got access to the customer's API

Step 02

Set up data transfer to the Yandex API

Step 03

Studied the technical documentation

Step 01

Tested and debugged the skill

development – 2 weeks

Implementation full time

1.5 months

Project Challenges

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Before embarking on the project, we conducted a research: we studied the documentation and the specifics of creating and developing such a service

Solution

Moderation took a week: we had to provide the cooker hood, do a general test with the moderator and the customer, and show the skill working in real time

Solution

A lengthy but important procedure. It is necessary so that the buyers of hoods can connect the device to Alice

Reason

Skill moderation in Yandex