Back in May, I wrote about Allwinner R18 based Banana Pi BPI-M64 Board with Google Cloud IoT Core support, as Google unveils the new cloud service during Google I/O. However, at the time it was only available to selected partners, and Google has recently launched the public beta making their IoT device management platform available to all.
I first learned about this through an ARM community blog post announcing availability of the ARM-based IoT Kit for Cloud IoT Core on Adafruit using Raspberry Pi 3 board, a breadboard, and various modules that can be managed through Google services.
But that are plenty of other IoT kits or boards for Google Cloud IoT Core including:
- Allwinner R18 based Pine A64-LTS, Banana Pi BPI-R18
- Marvell based MACCHIATObin, and ESPRESSOBin boards
- Mongoose OS IoT starter kit with ESP32 board( instead of Raspberry Pi 3)
- Grove IoT Commercial Developer Kit based on Intel NUC DE3815TYKE
- Sierra Wireless mangOH Red
- Realtek Ameba-RTL8195AM
- Argon i.MX6UL Development Platform
You’ll find purchase links and documentation for each board on Google Cloud IoT Core’s IoT Kit page. Sample code specific to the RPI3 kit can also be found on Github.
Google IoT Core is free to use for up to 250 MB/month with no limit on the number of devices, and if you exceed this limit pricing per MB depends on data usage:
- 250MB to 250 GB – $0.0045 per MB
- 250GB to 5 TB – $0.0020 per MB
- Over 5 TB – $0.00045 per MB
Jean-Luc started CNX Software in 2010 as a part-time endeavor, before quitting his job as a software engineering manager, and starting to write daily news, and reviews full time later in 2011.
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