What is the difference between Google's Brillo and Apple's HomeKit?

At the Google Developers Conference held last week, Google announced its project BrBr, which is based on Android's entry into smart home. The news of this week's circle of friends was replaced by Apple. On June 9, Apple based on the HomeKit platform. The first batch of smart home devices will be unveiled at WWDC2015. In fact, since the beginning of last year, Google bought the digital thermostat manufacturer Nest for $3.2 billion? After Apple launched the smart home platform HomeKit, Google and Apple did not have any big moves in the smart home field. What is Google’s sudden launch of the Project Brillo system in the smart home? Can this late system catch up with Apple's HomeKit?

What is the difference between Google's Brillo and Apple's HomeKit?

Google's Project Brillo

On May 29th, the 2015 Google I/O Developers Conference was held as scheduled in San Francisco, USA. At the meeting, Google announced the latest Android M and other system platforms, multiple mobile Internet applications, wearable devices and smart home new products and other rich products and technologies. The most notable one is called Project? Brillo's project. It is based on Android's underlying source code development, is an operating system based on Android's underlying framework, supports Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and other Android features. It can run on devices with 32MB or 64MB of memory, such as smart door locks, anti-theft devices, smart housekeeping cameras and other small devices.

Brillo is from Android, so it's very convenient for device pairing and setup. Any Android device can easily interface with and control Brilli smart devices. In addition, the Project Brillo system equipment manufacturer can also manage your equipment through the Project Brillo system. The music from the room can be automatically turned on, to control your oven, etc., through this system to achieve intelligent control.

Google’s Android team responsible for Sandal Pichai said at the I/O conference that the challenge for smart homes is that the devices are isolated from each other and cannot be interconnected. Only by letting them communicate with each other can they be truly intelligent. For example, a cooking application can adjust the smart oven to the right temperature. To this end, Google launched the Internet of Things operating system Brillo, allowing users to control smart home through Android devices. Brillo has a unified rules and data transfer protocol that enables developers and manufacturers to develop and design connected devices.

There is no detailed description of how Brillo is used in the product. However, Google also launched the IoT communication layer protocol called Weave, which enables the underlying operations to continue with Brillo, enabling interoperability with smartphones and the cloud. Pichaya spent a lot of time explaining "Weave." Weave allows devices to define events themselves (for example, "lock the door", "unlock" the door lock) and let other devices know about the existence of these events and what they mean. This allows the devices to interact with themselves, like locking the door, the air conditioner and the oven will know, and at the same time turn off their own power supply and the like. Although the top-level UI is missing, most of Android's I/O functions still exist on Brillo, so it still includes a tool that can understand the voice, making the instructions of "coffee machine, brewing a cup of coffee" possible.

“We want to create a natural and seamless way for smart homes to connect.” According to Gupi Chay, the NEST team updated the traditional equipment and worked with the Android team to provide an end-to-end solution.

It is understood that Google's Internet of Things operating system Brillo will be released to developers in the third quarter of this year, and Weave will wait until the fourth quarter, after which will see the first attempt to use the product.

Apple's HomeKit

At last year's Global Developers Conference, Apple launched HomeKit, a smart home platform. It is a unified system similar to hub, integrated into iOS, will allow third-party smart home accessories to connect with it last October, Apple officially completed the official completion of Apple's homeKit hardware standards, and through MFi (MadeForiPhone The /iPad/iPod licensing program opens to manufacturing licenses for smart home device vendors. After the hardware standard is developed, hardware vendors will begin to create integrated products that are compatible with the HomeKit platform.

All developers who create hardware for HomeKit must comply with Apple's MFi regulations and integrate the HomeKit technology standard. Apple's HomeKit standard adds pairing and security for low-power Bluetooth and WiFi HomeKit peripherals. Subsequently, Apple announced a number of partners, including Philips, Honeywell and Haier and other big names. However, at the CES show held earlier this year, although we saw dozens of smart home accessories, there are not many products that are really compatible with HomeKit.

Now that one year has passed, Apple finally has new news. Recently, Apple announced the first smart home products that support Homekit: Lutron Caseta Smart Lighting Starter Kit, iHome SmartPlug Smart Power Kit, ElgatoEva Home Connect Sensor, Ecobee Wireless Thermostat and Insteon Wireless Hub, the first two The products will be available this week, and the last three products will be available in the Apple Store in July. This means that soon we can build smart homes around Homekit, such as smart bulbs, outlets, power and thermostats. Of course, the premise is that Apple's own products such as iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch must be used to control these devices.

With the approach of WWDC, more and more news about Apple HomeKit. Yesterday, Apple released the official guide of HomeKit. The main contents are as follows: 1. The HomeKit function needs to be controlled on iOS 8.1 and above of iPhone, iPad or iPod touch; 2. Apple TV needs to be connected to HomeKit device. Central control gateway; 3, the device connected to HomeKit needs to have the "Works withHomeKit" logo; 4, the user needs to download the app of each smart device-related brand, and enter the HomeKit password in the app to pair, after the successful pairing can pass Siri Voice control device; 5, some home smart devices can be directly controlled by voice in the locked state of iPhone, some devices need to unlock the iPhone before using voice commands, but can not use Siri to achieve door opening control; To achieve coordinated control of a single command for multiple devices, it is necessary to have related function settings in the original brand app. Based on this, Apple Siri can implement voice control group devices; 7. Each home's HomeKit function has a manager and Multiple sharers can use. If the user moves and does not take away all the smart devices, the user needs to restore the HomeKit configuration before the new residents can be paired and controlled using the iOS device.

Another source pointed out that the HomeKit platform will be released together with iOS 9 released by WWDC. It is reported that Apple may launch a "Home" application in iOS 9, providing users with a virtual room overview, with Siri will have a better interactive experience, will be able to easily manage HomeKit smart home devices, then Apple TV can also As a control center.

Conclusion

Google and Apple are old rivals for many years. Both sides have different strengths in different fields. But from the perspective of smart home, from the platform, Google has Project Brillo, Apple has HomeKit, from the communication level, Google has Weave, Apple has Siri, and both sides have the possibility of a war. However, at a deeper level, because the smart home market is still immature, the strategic layout of the smart home is still not perfect. If the progress of both sides is at least, Google is at least one year behind Apple, so Google It is not an easy task to catch up with Apple, and there are players like Samsung, Haier and Xiaomi in the circle who are watching. Who can win the victory of this smart home is still waiting to prove.

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