Demo of AWS IoT Mailbox and Alexa Skill to check mail

A simple project that demonstrates the power of IoT along with an Alexa Skill to check mail.

It has 2 main components

A Mailbox IOT device that acts as a shadow for a physical mailbox. For the purpose of this project, it is a virtual IOT device.
An Alexa Skill to check whether there are any mails and to reset the state of the mailbox.

For those interested in source code, check out the GIT repo:
https://github.com/nitinc9/aws_iot_mailbox

Project Demo:

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