Google Developing “Brillo” Internet of Things OS Based on Android

Re:Google Developing “Brillo” Internet of Things OS Based on... by AceJohnny2 on Thursday May 21, 2015 @02:05PM (#9584363)

"aimed at ultra low-power devices with as little as 64 or 32MB of RAM."

I know Moore's Law and everything, but damn I must be getting old because that's not low-power by my standards.

My low-power standards are an MSP403 microcontroller running on a coin-cell battery.

Granted, it's going to be hard doing some level of interesting IP networking on that kind of hardware, especially with the increasing requirement of cryptography.

Maybe something slightly beefier running Contiki [1], but I can't resist the reactionary thought that anything Android- (or even Linux-)related is way too fat for many IoT applications.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contiki

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Re:Google Developing “Brillo” Internet of Things OS Based on... by tdkl on Thursday May 21, 2015 @04:43PM (#9585267)

Well, they do ship a mobile OS where 3GB of RAM aren't enough[1].

[1] http://www.gsmarena.com/googles_android_511_lollipop_in_work...

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Re:Google Developing “Brillo” Internet of Things OS Based on... by joezydeco on Thursday May 21, 2015 @02:29PM (#9584524)

Yeah, I spit my coffee at that line. That's cool for an IoT hub application, but not for a node.

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Re:Google Developing “Brillo” Internet of Things OS Based on... by rakyll on Sunday May 31, 2015 @04:33PM (#9635434)

You must interpret low-power devices as low-end Linux boards. No one is aiming to target the microcontroller market with a Linux/arm board.

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Re:Google Developing “Brillo” Internet of Things OS Based on... by erbdex on Monday June 08, 2015 @09:31PM (#9683583)

He is right. We run contiki with 128 bit AES on these systems. We need 30KB ROM to run a full ip stack.

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