Google moves to claim a bigger piece of the IoT pie

Internet giant Google has launched Cloud IoT Core, a new service in its Google Cloud Platform designed to extend its capabilities to distributed devices.
The launch serves as a reminder of what a potentially strong position Google is in when it comes to the nascent IoT industry. It already oversees billions of devices via Android and is a pioneer in the consumer cloud. While its B2B cloud efforts maybe play second fiddle to AWS, it’s hard to question Google’s credentials at either en