Google unveils Project Brillo, its next major software platform that goes way beyond

[Wireless News]

Google isn’t just putting its software on phones anymore. The company on Thursday unveiled a new platform called Project Brillo that will be its operating system for the so-called “Internet of things,” which is an industry buzzword for having several different household devices that are connected to the Internet and can communicate with one another. LEARN MORE ABOUT IoT: I saw the future “We hope we can connect devices in a seamless and intuitive way to make them work better for users,” Google Android boss Sundar Pichai said of Project Brillo’s mission. To make this happen, Google has developed a common communications language for devices called Weave that links users’ Android phones to the cloud and then to the appropriate

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