PUT302: How AWS Improves Energy Efficiency with the Alexa Connected Home

Discover how AWS IoT services, Amazon Alexa, and AWS services help businesses leverage the AWS Cloud to make millions of homes safer, more efficient, and healthier for their occupants. The initial pilots on low-income customer base saw over 6-20% reduction in electricity bills using the minimal customer configuration of just Alexa and very basic smart device control. Discover how companies are using Amazon Experts to deploy Alexa and AWS IoT into millions of smart homes across wide geographies. Learn how AWS IoT Core, digital twin, AWS Lambda, and data analytics are used to execute real-time coordination logic, implement scheduled actions, and execute event-based bidirectional control architected to manage millions customers simultaneously. Learn how coupling this in-home IoT capability with cloud-based big data/ML algorithms enables new customer-centric outcomes, including appliance performance detection, improving the value of solar assets, security monitoring, and better ways to schedule daily energy-intensive tasks, such EV charging and hot water heaters.