The reboot of Google's Internet of Things strategy. From project Tungsten, to Nest acquisition, to the development of the Android Things platform, to the genesis of Fuchsia real time OS.

1. Andrea Baresi
@hyle
+AndreaBaresi

2. In “principio”: Linux
sui sistemi embedded
1991...

3. “30 2020…”

4. Android - 1.0 nel settembre 2008
● Dal Sidekick di Andy Rubin
● Acquisizione luglio 2005
● Open mobile platform (OHA)
● No glibc, no uClibc, no BusyBox, ...
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6. “If all you have is a hammer,
everything looks like a nail.”
Law of the instrument
or Maslow's hammer

8. Android @ Home - “To turn your entire home into
a network of Android accessories”
maggio 2011

9. Project Tungsten ⇒ Nexus Q - Headless Android
2011 (demo)
giugno 2012

10. Nest - non solo termostati intelligenti
● Acquisita inizio 2014
● $3.2 billion cash
● Google e poi Alphabet
smart home division

11. Brillo e Weave
● La prima piattaforma IoT di Google
● Brillo annunciata al Google I/O del 2015
● A stripped-down version of Android (≠)
● Mai uscita dalla “developer preview”
● Weave è rimasto

12. Nest - 300$ Revolv home IoT hub (end 04/2016)

14. Android Things
● Il “reboot” della strategia IoT di Google
● Annuncio nel dicembre 2015
● Un ambiente Android completo ⇐ compatibility
● Attualmente poche differenze da 8.1 vanilla
● Aggiunta Peripheral I/O e User Drivers
● Developer preview 6 rilasciata proprio ieri

15. Cameras
Gateways
HVAC Control
Smart Meters
Point of Sale
Inventory Control
Interactive Ads
Vending Machines
Security Systems
Smart Doorbells
Routers
Energy Monitors
Asset Tracking
Fleet Management
Driver Assist
Predictive Service
Devices on the edge* that need to be secure
Fog Computing
*Edge ComputingRapid prototypes to real products

16. Android SDK Android Studio Play Services Firebase Cloud Platform

17. OTA Updates
Signed Images Verified Boot
A/B Rollback
Protection

19. SoM
Architecture
Google
Managed BSP
FCC Certifications

23. Displays are Optional
Consider Alternate UI

24. dependencies {
compileOnly 'com.google.android.things:androidthings:+'
}
<application>
<uses-library android:name="com.google.android.things"/>
<activity ...>
...
<!-- Launch activity automatically on boot -->
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN"/>
<category android:name="android.intent.category.IOT_LAUNCHER"/>
<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT"/>
</intent-filter>
</activity>
</application>
IOT_LAUNCHER, con app crash recovery...
build.gradle
AndroidManifest.xml

25. Google Fuchsia
● RTOS
● ⇒ IoT
● No Linux kernel
● No GPL/LGPL “inside”
● No Java
● The Zircon microkernel
● Flutter SDK
● ...

26. Andrea Baresi
@hyle
+AndreaBaresi
Android Things SDK
https://developer.android.com/things
Hackster.io Community
https://hackster.io/google