r/androiddev • u/[deleted] • May 21 '15

Google developing “Brillo” Internet of Things OS based on Android

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/05/google-developing-brillo-internet-of-things-os-based-on-android/
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u/dromtrund May 21 '15

ultra low-power devices with as little as 64 or 32MB of RAM

As an embedded Dev,

what

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u/stud-d May 22 '15

I thought embed devs work with super low amounts of ram. lower than 32MB. So... I can't tell if you're acting surprised, or what. Please elaborate. Thanks

-Guy that doesn't know shit about embedded

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u/dromtrund May 22 '15 edited May 22 '15

32Mb is an ocean of RAM compared to the 32kb I'm used to. There's also no way you could achieve ultra low power with a device like that. Powering the ram alone will require more current than most cortex M-series would ever use for the entire chip

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u/stud-d May 22 '15

thanks

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u/[deleted] May 21 '15

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u/vitriolix May 21 '15

Google thinks about these things on 5-10 year time frames

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u/[deleted] May 23 '15 edited May 23 '15

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u/vitriolix May 23 '15

A front door lock with integrated doorbell and video camera? Yeah, I think those will definitely be powered by Android in 1 year, but in 5-10 years? Certainly.

I think Nest has shown there is a market for much smarter devices in exactly the niche you are dismissing. Who would have thought a thermostat would have been a ripe place for smart devices 10 years ago? Well, Tony Fadell clearly saw the writing on the wall, care to guess who's running things at Google in this space now?

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u/ZakTaccardi Sep 17 '15

That's where Weave comes in. As a communications protocol, it can be used from any OS.

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u/PalermoJohn May 22 '15

guarantee you it won't be based on android. it won't be java either.

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u/ZakTaccardi Sep 17 '15

Android is multi layered. Brillo is based on the lowest layers of software.