Indranil Chakraborty, Product manager, Google Cloud

We are pleased to announce that Cloud IoT Core, our fully hosted service that helps users securely connect and manage large scale IoT devices, is now available to the public. With Cloud IoT Core, you can easily connect and centrally manage millions of connected devices scattered across the globe. When used as part of the broader Google Cloud IoT solution, you can access all IoT data and connect to our state-of-the-art analytics and machine learning services for actionable analytics. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) customers have used connected devices and Cloud IoT Core as the foundation of their IoT solutions. Whether it’s smart cities, the sharing economy, or the next generation of seismic research, we’re excited that Cloud IoT Core is helping many innovative companies build the future.

Customer sharing feedback

Schlumberger is a leading global provider of reservoir characterization, drilling, production and treatment technologies to the oil and gas industry.

“As part of our IoT integration strategy, Google Cloud IoT Core helps us focus our engineering efforts on building oil and gas applications by leveraging existing IoT services for fast, reliable and cost-effective deployment. We have been able to prototype quickly by connecting a large number of devices using MQTT and performing real-time monitoring using Cloud Dataflow and BigQuery.”

— Chetan Desai, Vice President of digital Technology, Schlumberger Limited

Smart Parking is a New Zealand company that has been using Cloud IoT Core since its inception to build a Smart city platform that helps with traffic direction, Parking and city services.

“With Google Cloud IoT Core, we have completely redefined how we manage the deployment, activation, and operation of sensors and devices. Previously, we needed to set up each sensor/device individually. Now, we assign batches of devices to IoT Core for field deployment, and then use a simple smartphone to activate the application, where the installation technician can quickly activate the sensor or device. The job is done!”

— John Heard, CTO, Smart Parking Limited

Bike-sharing pioneer Blaze uses Cloud IoT Core to manage its Blaze Future data platform, which uses a combination of GPS, accelerometer and atmospheric remote sensing for its smart bikes. Features include air pollution detection, pothole detection, recording accidents and near-misses, and capturing data along the way.

“By connecting our products and bike fleets to Cloud IoT Core in a safer way, and then using BigQuery and machine learning to run demand forecasting, Blaze is able to quickly build the technology platform our customers and cyclists need on Google Cloud.”

— Philip Ellis, co-founder and COO of Blaze

Grupo ADO is Latin America’s biggest bus operator. They operate intercity routes and charter buses for short trips and Tours.

“Google Cloud Senior partner Agosto conducted a business and technical review of MOBILITY ADO’s existing architecture, applications, and core data workflows, which have been in use for approximately 12 years. They were initially very reliable, but over time we were challenged to innovate on the existing technology stack and optimize operating costs. Agosto performed a proof of concept showing that Cloud IoT Core based architecture is a viable way to modernize and function optimize many of our existing Core components. “MOBILITY ADO now has real-time access to transit diagnostics through Google Cloud data and analytics, and has laid out a clear path to adapt our platform to future needs.”

— Humberto Campos, DIRECTOR of IT, MOBILITY ADO

Implement Cloud IoT Core partner ecosystem

At the same time, we continue to grow our partner ecosystem, providing companies with data analytics and staff to help build custom IoT solutions that meet their needs. On the device side, we have a variety of partners who provide hardware that seamlessly integrates with IoT Core. At the same time, application partners are helping customers build solutions using IoT Core and other Google Cloud services.

Improve Cloud IoT Core experience

Since we announced the open beta of Cloud IoT Core last fall, we’ve been actively listening to feedback from our users. This release for the public incorporates an important new feature: You can now publish data streams from the IoT Core protocol bridge to multiple Cloud Pub/Sub topics, simplifying the deployment process. For example, suppose you have a device that publishes multiple types of data, such as temperature, humidity, and logging data. By directing these data streams directly to their respective Pub/Sub topics, you no longer need to separate data into different categories once published. This is just the beginning and we will be releasing additional features and enhancements for Cloud IoT Core. We look forward to helping you scale up your IoT production deployment. To get started, check out the Cloud IoT Core Quickstart tutorial:

https://cloud.google.com/iot/docs/quickstart

And send us your feedback – we’d love to hear from everyone!

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