Cloud IoT Device SDK

2019: Announcement

At the end of February, 2019 Google released program tools open source of Cloud IoT Device SDK which is intended for the built-in devices of Internet of Things. Innovation is developed in cooperation with several semiconductor companies, including with ARM, Microchip Technology and NXP Semiconductors.

The main objective of Cloud IoT Device SDK — to help developers to create quickly prototypes and preliminary versions of IoT-products and also to test them in the standard environment before commercial implementation. It is supposed that this technology will accelerate an output of new solutions to the market.

Google released opened SDK for rapid development of the built-in IoT-devices

For the clients projecting, creating or implementing IoT-solutions, SDK supports a broad set of devices of a microcontroller (MCU) class, opening an opportunity for development of systems for tracking of assets, "smart" agriculture and electricity metering, said in the statement of Google.

The company attracts semiconductor partners to implement direct connection of devices with MCU ("smart" refrigerators, engines in industrial equipment, etc.) to the cloud platform of Internet of Things. This platform is applied to device management, performance control of the equipment, visualization and data analysis.

Client libraries Cloud IoT Device SDK are written on Embedded C — a set of expansions of programming language C. SDK is developed for annexes to the equipment which has the small sizes and low power consumption, for example, the devices of the "smart" house having small amount of memory. Cloud IoT Device SDK can work on the gadgets having only 25 Kb a flash memory.

Thanks to it SDK chipmakers can easily update the product lines thanks to support of Cloud IoT Core, added to Google.

Source codes of the project are laid out on the GitHub portal.^[1]

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