Yesterday, we heard for the first time about “Brillo” — a special version of Android developed by Google for Internet of Things. 

The report from The Information claimed that Brillo would be launched under the Android brand and would help in connecting and communicating between low power devices.

Now, NextMarket has managed to gather more details about Brillo. According to their sources, Google has been talking to a variety of manufacturers about its IoT software. The company especially targeted router manufacturers since Brillo will apparently require the home router to run a particular set of code that would allow various low power devices to communicate with each other.

According to my sources, Google has approached numerous router manufacturers such as Netgear, Asus and possibly others. They say Google sees existing home device categories – particularly the home router -as a very logical device to act as a central part of the smart home architecture. It’s essentially a post-hub vision.

Sources of NextMarket also reveal that most of the computation from Brillo will be done in the cloud. This will not only be faster, but more efficient as well as the primary device running Brillo will not have to pack high-end chipsets.

To talk between various ‘smart devices’, Google is looking at making use of low power radio technologies like Zigbee. The company is not particularly interested in Thread — a technology created by Nest and is considered as an industry standard now, but it has not completely ruled it out as well.

Craig Barratt, ex-CEO of Atheros, is leading the team behind Brillo. The team is working independently from the Google Glass and Nest team, which is headed by Tony Fadell.

We should expect Google to unveil Brillo at its I/O conference which starts next week.