Google Gets Its Game Together on Connected Devices

There is money to made out of data generated by billions of connected devices--the so-called Internet of things. In this scenario, gizmos from fitness trackers to kitchen appliances to jet engines are geared up to collect and transmit data about their performance. That data is then used to track how they are working and predict when they might fail so preventive maintenance can be performed. Amazon (amzn) and Microsoft have been very vocal about their plans to capitalize on the Internet of things. Get Data Sheet, Fortune's technology newsletter. This week that changed as Google is launching its first comprehensive attempt to bundle its various technologies to make aggregation and analysis of device data easier.