Upkar Lidder
Upkar Lidder is a Full Stack Developer and Data Wrangler with a decade of development experience in a variety of roles. He can be seen speaking at various conferences and participating in local tech groups and meetups.
Chat your way to a faster commute!
Upkar Lidder
Jose Rojas
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https://developer.tomtom.com/
Tom Watson
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IBM Developer
Part 1: Building with the Watson Assistant
Skill vs Assistant
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IBM Developer
Intents
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IBM Developer
Catalog
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IBM Developer
Entities
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IBM Developer
System Entities
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IBM Developer
Dialog
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IBM Developer
Dialog
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IBM Developer
Deploy
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IBM Developer
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IBM Developer
http://bit.ly/bot-tips
Part 2: IBM Cloud Functions
What is Serverless
Serverless computing refers to the concept of building and running applications that do not require server management.
It describes a finer-grained deployment model where applications, bundled as one or more functions, are uploaded to a platform and then executed, scaled, and billed in response to the exact demand needed at the moment.
It refers to the idea that consumers of serverless computing no longer need to spend time and resources on server provisioning, maintenance, updates, scaling, and capacity planning. Instead, all of these tasks and capabilities are handled by a serverless platform and are completely abstracted away from the developers.
Cloud Native Computing Foundation
https://github.com/cncf/wg-serverless/tree/master/whitepapers/serverless-overview
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IBM Developer
Use Cases
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Secure and scalable APIs
- API Gateway ➸ Function
- HTTP level scaling
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Backend services / micro services
- function/service level scaling
- polyglot functions
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Event Driven Programming
- Changes in database
- Social events
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IBM Developer
Part 3: TomTom Integration
TomTom Traffic
@JJ_R_Ealo
Register on the portal to get a free API key.
What are we integrating?
Minute-to-minute incident data.
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- Updated every 2 minutes in 77 countries
- Various types of incidents supported: traffic jams, accidents, roadworks, road closures
- The incidents include: incident type, severity, delays, location, length
- Transparent 256x256 tiles to overlay on a map
- Vector and raster format
- Possibility to customize vector tiles styles
- Incident details for a bounding box in XML and JSON
The TomTom Traffic Incidents API offers a view on the most significant incidents impacting traffic in an area.
The incidents can be delivered as tiles to visualize on a map and can be customized to fit any style.
The list of incidents with its full details can also be retrieved, enabling easy integration into traffic monitoring dashboards.
Traffic Incidents
Traffic Documentation
Required values to test your call.
@JJ_R_Ealo
Traffic Documentation
Test your details with the API explorer, so you can refer to the documentation as you work.
@JJ_R_Ealo
check-accident Function
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check-accident Function
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Take it to the next level with Routing
25 years of navigation experience in one API
Calculate routes for different transportation modes, including trucks
Get accurate travel times and ETAs for your drivers
Optimize routes with waypoints for trucks
Calculate the energy and fuel required for a trip
Estimate the exact range of a an electric vehicle
•Powered by predictive and real-time traffic
•8 travel modes including bikes and trucks
•4 route types, including exclusive Eco routing for energy efficient routes
•Routes with up to 150 waypoints
•Advanced consumption models for combustion and electric engines
•Avoid criteria: toll roads, vignettes, ferries, motorways, custom areas
•Time and fuel based isochrones
•Batch and Matrix routing
FEATURES
Routing: Travel Modes to Check Out
With 25 years of experience in navigating millions of drivers, TomTom knows how to tailor the route to the vehicle.
The TomTom Routing API Travel modes calculates routes taking into account applicable restrictions, dimensions, cargo for 8 vehicle types.
That means safer, faster routes and less unpleasant surprises.
Travel modes supported:
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Car
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Truck
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Bicycle
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Pedestrian
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Taxi (beta)
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Bus (beta)
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Van (beta)
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Motorcycle (beta)
Thank you-Let's chat !
Upkar Lidder, IBM
@lidderupk
https://github.com/lidderupk/
ulidder@us.ibm.com
Jose Jose Rojas, TomTom
@JJ_R_Ealo
https://github.com/ovahsen
Jose.Rojas@tomtom.com
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Slots
@lidderupk
IBM Developer
Add slots to a dialog node to gather multiple pieces of information from a user within that node.
Slots collect information at the users' pace. Details the user provides upfront are saved, and the service asks only for the details they do not.
Digressions
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IBM Developer
Use digressions to handle interruptions and off topic short conversations.
Digressions allow the user to change topics or ask for more information and allows them to come back to the original intent.
Example:
Make an appointment.
What times are you open?
Handlers
@lidderupk
IBM Developer
Use handlers to
- provide responses to questions users might ask during the interaction that are tangential to the purpose of the node
- provide exit route
Example: I need to talk to an agent.
Where to go from here ...
@lidderupk
IBM Developer
- Advance features
- Disambiguation
- New intents by clustering existing data
- Handlers - handle interruptions in your dialog
- Recommendations to create entities
- Advanced analytics/testing/monitoring
- Call out to a service
- Watson Assistant can call out to IBM Cloud Functions
- Add code to your bot
- Watson Assistant Expression Language
IBM Code Patterns
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IBM Developer
Tom Watson - commute bot
By Upkar Lidder
