Dell Inc. has debuted its first lab devoted to researching the Internet of Things at the company’s Santa Clara offices, reports the Silicon Valley Business Journal.
At the lab’s official unveiling, Joyce Mullen, Dell’s vice president and general manager of its Global OEM Solutions group, told the crowd that Dell set up the lab to learn more about the industry and to help develop standards around it. Its IoT involvement means, of course, that Dell will help determine industry growth areas for which the company could eventually develop products.
Products that Round Rock-based Dell is developing at the lab include a smart pill dispenser, a chip that monitors changes in temperature, humidity and air pressure, among others.
Dell teamed up with Intel, which contributed funding for the lab, unusual for an incubator-type lab.
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Dell’s partnership with California-based Intel Corp. (Nasdaq: INTC) is also important because it suggests proximity to great resources of processing power. Intel has not yet revealed the extent to which it will help Dell. The lab is also critically located down the road from Echelon, the embedded components manufacturer.
This project between Intel and Dell follows the announcement earlier this year that they were collaborating to create the Open Interconnect Consortium, an alliance to create standards for Internet of Things devices.
Dell, the No. 3 computer maker in the world, employs 14,000 workers in Central Texas.
Date: November 24, 2014