Internet of Things get smarter with smaller Alexa. Decreased size from offloading work from devices to the cloud in fast, real-time operating systems and constant connectivity for ambient computing. From Amazon: " Today, smart home IoT devices are Built with low cost microcontrollers (MCU) with limited memory to run real time operating systems. Until now, AVS solutions for Alexa Built-in products required expensive application processor-based devices with >50MB memory running on Linux or Android. These expensive hardware requirements made it cost prohibitive to integrate Alexa Voice on resource constrained IoT devices. AVS for AWS IoT enables Alexa Built-in functionality on MCUs like ARM Cortex ‘M’ class with <1MB embedded RAM by offloading memory and compute tasks to a virtual Alexa Built-in device in the cloud, thus reducing eBoM cost by up-to 50%." Sources: Gizmodo: https://gizmodo.com/amazon-quietly-reveals-plan-to-put-alexa-in-almost-ever-1840046869 Amazon Alexa Developer Blog: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/iot/introducing-alexa-voice-service-integration-for-aws-iot-core/ Amazon FreeRTOS: https://aws.amazon.com/freertos/
