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Google Developing 'Brillo' OS For Internet of Things
An anonymous reader writes: A new report from The Information (paywalled) says Google is working on an operating system called "Brillo" that would be a platform for Internet-of-things devices. It's supposedly a lightweight version of Android, capable of running on devices with extremely limited hardware — as little as 32 MB of RAM, for example. The company is expected to launch the code for Brillo at its I/O event next week. This is particularly relevant now that Google has acquired Nest, Dropcam, and Revolv — a trio of "smart home" companies whose devices could potentially by unified by Brillo.
32MB is a lot of data for a sensor.
Not if you're a spy agency.
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No, the sensors are already there. The 'internet of things' hype is about giving control over machines and private information from sensors to large companies.
"as little as 32 MB of RAM, for example"
I'm getting old.
My first full PC had 2MB of RAM.
My first computer had only 48Kb of RAM.
Hell, I have an "computer" next me to capable of connecting to the Internet (even to act as HTTP server, DHCP client, NTP client, etc.), controlling relays, performing some computations, etc. It has 32Kb of Flash, 2Kb of SRAM and 1Kb of EEPROM. It's called an Arduino UNO.
By comparison, then, 32Mb is over 1000 times more than needed for IoT crap.
U.S.A.: 32MB
China: 10KB
Guess who's more efficient and guess who's trying to cram spyware into everything.
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Google is definitely the company I want making the OS that will be in every fucking electronic device in my house, because they're so serious about my privacy.
You are welcome on my lawn.
For comparison, here is a typical microcontroller with a few kilobytes of RAM. No wonder the Nest is so expensive.....it's vastly overpowered for what it does.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Shouldn't we call this Brillio Beta, so that we can all invest heavily in it for 2 years before Google changes their mind and withdraws it?
Yes it doesn't mean, but when it says "google", your data land at their servers. And from a security standpoint, they have control.