Samsung, Intel, Dell and others team up to help your gadgets talk to each other
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There’s yet another tech industry group focused on the internet of things in town. Samsung has partnered with_Atmel, Broadcom, Dell, Intel and Intel-owned Wind River to launch the Open Interconnect Consortium, an organization aiming_to create engineering standards to help_electronic devices ‘talk’ to one another — e.g. controlling your Samsung fridge from an Intel-powered smartphone. Consumers can already control their smart (Nest) thermostat from their phone or message their LG washing machine, but the internet of things promises to make this kind of activity possible across_any platform and using devices from different companies. Already we have_the_Industrial Internet Consortium, which was founded...
