On sexta-feira, 4 de maio de 2018 12:16:24 PDT Gregg Reynolds wrote: > Another dumb name from the Google. Web says it will be a theme at > Google/io next week. What does it mean for OCF and Iotivity? E.g. "The > Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks (LoWPAN > <https://developer.android.com/things/sdk/apis/lowpan.html>) APIs enable > apps to interact with local devices connected over a wireless personal area > network." > > My highly-constrained MCU (Mental Confusion Unit) cannot quite grok this > ATM. > > Any OCF devs working with it?
I've been hearing about Android Things and its predecessor project (Brillo) for two or three years now and they have little to show for it. In the last incarnation whose details I saw, it was a shrunken down Android, meant to run on devices with about 256-512 MB of RAM, as it still tries to run the JVM to provide API. It's basically Android minus graphics. The big feature is that they'd be centrally managed by Google, so once you onboard your device, it shows up on your dashboard somewhere on google.com and Google would manage the necessary updates for security. Any Android build of an OCF application should run on it and so could native applications built using an NDK. So in that sense, Android Things and OCF are not competitors, but complement each other. Google did for a time have a plan for a communication protocol, which they'd make available on Brillo/Android Things. It was called Weave. I haven't heard of it for a while, so I can't say whether it's still coming or whether it was abandoned. That would have been a competitor to OCF. Don't confuse Weave with the Nest Weave, which is how they retroactively named the 6LoWPAN-based network that the Nest thermostat uses to talk to sensors. They are different protocols. Nest Weave competes more with Bluetooth LE than with OCF, at least until we figure out low-power OCF. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center _______________________________________________ iotivity-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.iotivity.org/mailman/listinfo/iotivity-dev
