Brillo: Now Android Joins the IoT Bandwagon

Last week in Google I/O Google made an announcement about its latest OS: Brillo. With Brillo Google aims to create an operating system that links our real world things with each other so that our appliances like microwave, televisions, washing machines, air conditioners can all communicate with each other .

In I/O Google also confirmed that Project Brillo will be based on its existing Android operating system but it will be significantly simplified for use in objects other than smartphones and tablets.

Some of the key features which Brillo offers are:

• Its derived from Android
• Has minimal System Requirements
• Broad Silicon Support
• Easy to Secure

A screen capture from I/O provides a better insight on the same

But Brillo is not alone , Brillo is packed with a powerful communicating layer called Weave. This is the layer which would enable IoT devices to communicate with each other , it’s the glue which will bind the cloud, your mobile and your appliance together . Using Weave it will be possible for devices to publish their current state and also the various supported states. Weave will support JSON based developers APIs thus providing out of the box cross platform support and making the entire system developer friendly.

Brillo will be available to the developer community from Q3 this year and we can expect the complete developer stack with Weave somewhere around Q4.

With Brillo Google has taken a giant step in bringing together this fragmented world of IOT, Google has put forward a very well formed strategy, now its the execution which will decide whether Brillo will prove to be another Android in Making or just another research product to be shelved.
(Image Source: Google I/O )
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