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What things concern when talking about the internet of things ? We are approaching Christmas and surely products next year in each store are starting to poke their heads. Watches supposedly intelligent, the latest fashion glasses and all kinds of gadgets that record our steps and share on social networks our habits. But this is just the beginning so it seems, prepare to have a microchip in the fridge, in the car, on clothes, on TV, lampposts … any element of our environment can be adapted to monitor and detect activity close becoming a vast network node that is the Internet and aims to cover everything even more.

several enthusiasts have already emerged on sites like Kickstarter to numerous initiatives in the form of sensors or small gadgets but suffer from something that is not in your hands. Large manufacturers are now starting to adapt protocols and processors required for these gadgets have a life and a decent enough functionality. So until the big industry resource we cater these ideas are based more on creativity than on the opportunity.

war with Intel and Qualcomm for low-power processors

If we had to define what is the main difference between these two companies should look at the architecture of their processors. Reliable Intel with x86 rigid and their dynamic Qualcomm ARM-based processors, but have spent many years and these simplifications are no longer applicable. Qualcomm in the mobile market began and ended becoming the heart of so many devices that recently overtook the powerful Intel traded. These are times of mobility, low power consumption and control.

Qualcomm and ARM

go far beyond the range and big.LITTLE Snapdragon. No we review everything they have but will from modems to almost zero consumption processors. Of the latter speak now, the Cortex-M Series range of ARM, option destined to become a reference in devices requiring long battery life. Its TDP is far below that seen in mobile and are optimized to control the sensors above as the bluetooth or the accelerometer. There is no concern for the graphical power or MHz, but that all come into play and connectivity frameworks designed specifically for this platform.

Toq Qualcomm has inside one of these Cortex, specifically an M3 at 200MHz, power enough to move with ease that Mirasol screen that has the smartwatch but also to give a range of about three to five days, numbers Android are difficult to see today.

Intel has spent a very large amount of resources to fight these flexible architectures . And we do not mean Haswell and great battery improvement in the ultrabooks, or its Atom range that has failed to convince many manufacturers beyond some Asian smartphone or a tablet (like the Galaxy Tab 3).

Intel roadmap is well defined, but these days at IDF San Francisco have announced a new platform to provide heart and energy all these portable or wearable objects. Quark is consumption and promise a tenth of the current Atom, all thanks to its 14nm process and architecture Airmont.

The first members will

SoCs Intel X1000 Series Quark, one-fifth the size of the Atom, which will be available sometime in the next year 2014, thus advancing a couple of quarters in the estimates quoted earlier this year . Most surprising is the license of this new platform, as Intel mimics ARM and decided sublicense its architecture so that they can create their own recreations.

With a TDP

tiny and ridiculous prices no doubt about that from next year the fever increases exponentially small gadgets, insofar Intel or Qualcomm to produce these chips will the advantage that it can take over one another.

Adapting

processor device needs

the time decided to license ARM architecture revealed that Intel would be a robin, owner jealous of the secrets that had made powerful. While many companies have gone then by his side, the truth is that both Qualcomm Krait Apple Swyft are strongly inspired by the designs of ARM.

Once acquired the skills to make their own models, the trend has been to make processors with special characteristics of each brand. The hardware customization reserve certain components to engage in specific tasks that you want the device to automatically perform is unusual as the Exynos processor from Samsung. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 has become the most desired to show that battery power and can go hand thanks to details that fail to include eight cores.

Our friends just launched apple with his main chip processor M7 motion tracking, solely responsible for monitoring the accelerometer, gyroscope and compass, just what is used in many wearable devices that use brokers . As we see here Apple hardware optimized to work best in areas that suit you best.

Google bought Motorola

perhaps with an eye to this, it is not surprising that Moto X processor so special. apparently no longer a potential S4Pro Snapdragon, but thanks to the multicore addiction side can handle the voice recognition or to provide energy to run Google Now. Motorola X8 is the name given to the processor with multiple cores that Google uses to manage its services only. Therefore it is very important that the software and hardware of the same hand go, for it is the standard operating system and applications work in the same line as the processor that moves them.

synthesizable and moldable These processors come with an SDK and some specific libraries so that developers can make better use of multithreaded architecture, not an easy task but the results are far better than that possible by brute force.

Samsung

are here at a crossroads, and hence his latest moves with Tizen. The Korean brand plans to manufacture its own processors (in fact it already does with the Exynos) and its own software, not to depend on a Google who works for herself.

Finally, ‘re seeing that those extra cores are intended primarily to save battery and functions that have nothing to do with the power. A trend that is but the prelude to the invasion of Monitoing , notifiers and miniherramientas that will be coming to rid the smartphone of many utilities that make more sense if made from smaller screens or even in the background without requiring our attention.

Will Android 5.0 version for all types of devices?

Be the treat that is the future version of Android (beyond Kit Kat), which assumes that it’s a big change from what we have now. Many things can happen, but we wonder if Google decide to use Android as the primary operating system and cannibalize both Chrome OS as a possible system that would use these little gizmos.

Consider what we have now, Google Glass and smartwatches. developers have already been launched to create all kinds of applications to take advantage of what these gadgets can do on smartphones. And it seems that will have an own section in Google Play,? one? Two? If we look at the design that is most in vogue is wearable devices may not be so different in the interface between them.

But Google plans go beyond the network. Because not all processors have enough power to move Android , not even have to be a screen on these devices. How much sense does that introduce a complete operating system if you only want to drive a pair of sensors?

Also if we want to be smart devices need a protocol to communicate. Once solved the issue of the IPs, you need a way to send the information to the network, either through HTTP , an email address, a phone number … and here comes the bluetooth LE or Smart Ready. This low-power version of the classic bluetooth is supported by Android and just needs two terminals to operate. One of them is defined as the other central and peripheral, Central would our mobile and peripheral can be anything with a simple mononuclear processor might work. Do you sound Chromecast? Now imagine that instead of connecting to a television with all its programs, etc … will connect to a blank screen where the processor would only function to move fluently videos.

screen overlook the requirements that would have to take would be even smaller processors. Its role should be only to receive and transmit a specific pattern through bluetooth and remain in a suspended state with minimum spending the rest of the time.

Google takes thinking about these long device networks, a sample would be your android @ home system which I have not heard. The idea of ??the internet of things for Google spends more of a collection of sensors and tags (NFC style) that a multitude of miniandroides everywhere. Although this will depend largely on the role of the object, a smartwatch like Gear or Toq does have more sense to have Android but maybe not a lamppost or those chips that pass unnoticed by the user so that their use is almost automatic . Here we enter a dangerous digression, and we can also ask about charging (wireless) battery, one so small that recharge possibly not up to us.

Already low power processors in many androids, from televisions, smart cars, controllers, consoles, coffee machines … until mirrors. Google should start sooner entered on all devices plausible before other manufacturers believe valid enough platforms to run without operating system . So far Intel and Qualcomm are simply hardware manufacturers whose business model is to partner with the more the better, but not the first nor the last time that a giant and decides to venture alone.

How safe is this? We will not know until we open standards arise, but because it is a new field time companies are still quite clear and compatibles. We’ll see if Google decides to venture into the internet of things Android / Motorola as a spearhead or as the open operating system that made acogieran everyone else for your own company.

We

from here that these innovations come to fruition, nothing would be worse for us than the amount of gadgets to charge overnight doubled … in short, a war looming the best power / watts in which to we offer customers a range of possibilities that will leave outdated arduino boards.

Do you think that large companies take advantage of this new way of accessing our information to classify it better? Tags? Through and with the birth of a semantic web or continue with the model of apps?

Intel or Qualcomm Will the new giant of microchips? Are you ready for Apple and Samsung also create watches, glasses, cars …? Android or Windows Is the system better positioned for the internet of things? Will we have chips up on the socks? Will they take Android?