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

Re:Google Developing “Brillo” Internet of Things OS Based on... by Zigurd on Thursday May 21, 2015 @02:46PM (#9584631)

There are a variety of interesting small-ish RTOSs out there for IoT SoCs and devices. Most of these are are significantly smaller-footprint than a full Android implementation.

BUT the 64MB RAM target they are aiming for could be reached by a "headless" variant of Android. The Android runtime does a lot of interesting things to minimize memory use and power consumption. Android's installable service components could make updatable, highly flexible IoT nodes realistic.

In the context of the (scant) facts in the article, it does make sense.

It doesn't make sense if you think of an IoT node having only a few kB of program memory, a sensor io link, and a Zigbee radio. These ain't going to be $2 nodes.

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Re:Google Developing “Brillo” Internet of Things OS Based on... by rakyll on Sunday May 31, 2015 @04:41PM (#9635455)

Brillo contains a very minimal part of Android for HAL and the network stack. 64MB is our medium-end target. The ART is not in the scope of Brillo.

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Re:Google Developing “Brillo” Internet of Things OS Based on... by minthd on Friday May 22, 2015 @11:49AM (#9589003)

>> Android's installable service components could make updatable, highly flexible IoT nodes realistic.

In concrete terms , what are the benefits of those to IOT nodes ? Aren't IOT nodes mostly fixed function, only updated for security - and there are solutions for that.

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