Distant Spaces

DNA Spaces and Cisco Webex Teams to help with social distancing in workplace enviroments.

Business/Technical Challenge

As the rise of social distancing practices comes to professional workplace environments, employees are becoming more aware of proper practices that will reduce the spread of COVID19. In particular, certain areas in the office such as cafeterias were often used with no regard to social distancing rules.

Proposed Solution

As such, Distant Spaces is a solution that tackles this issue by connecting to the office wireless system, based on catalyst 9k or Meraki APs, tow webex teams bot to allow employees to query the bot before entering an area to check if it's safe to enter or not. This will require mapping of the office floor and devices to be connected to the corporate network. For example, before entering the floor where the cafeteria is located, an employee can query the bot and retrieve the following information:

• Status of the floor (Safe, busy, very busy) based on client count
• Sanitization station location (masks, hand sanitizer)
• Office Admin contact info/ start a conversation

Cisco Products Technologies/ Services

Our solution will levegerage the following Cisco technologies

• DNA Spaces
• Webex Teams
• Cisco Meraki

Team Members

• Yachie Xu yacxu@cisco.com - Global Virtual Engnieering
• Nour Zourob nozourob@cisco.com - Commercial Systems Engineer
• *Special thank you to Kelvin Cui kelvinwhcui@gmail.com - Technical Intern, for assisting in the project

Solution Components

Usage

*Youtube Submission: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8Z7LWtbjGw

Installation

How to install or setup the project for use:

1. Node & npm (minimum tested version is node 8.0.0 or higher) and git installed on your machine

2. Set up webex account and create a new bot

3. Clone this repository 

   git clone https://github.com/YachieXu/distant-spaces.git

4. Configure config.json file in the code directory with Webex Bot Token

   "token": “Bot Token”

5. Finally, to install and start the application, run this command:

   $ npm start

   *Note: the demo uses hardcoded data as our DNA Spaces accounts did not have live data

Documentation

Pointer to reference documentation for this project:

• Webex Node Bot Framework: https://www.npmjs.com/package/webex-node-bot-framework

• Webex Bot: https://developer.webex.com/docs/bots

• Webex Bot Buttons and Cards: https://developer.webex.com/docs/cards

• DNA Spaces Location Cloud API: https://developer.cisco.com/docs/dna-spaces/#!dna-spaces-location-cloud-api

License

Provided under Cisco Sample Code License, for details see LICENSE

Code of Conduct

Our code of conduct is available here

Contributing

See our contributing guidelines here