Last month, Dell launched an Internet of Things (IoT) Gateway powered by Ubuntu Core, and the product is already being tested to demonstrate how it can be used to run the smart buildings of the future. The gateway will process sensor data at the edge of a network, providing users with flexibility to perform analytics at the edge, reducing latency for data based decisions, such as managing energy consumption or triggering a call for proactive equipment maintenance. This reduces the time and cost associated with transferring data to the cloud or data centre. Dell’s new gateways provide an IoT edge solution that conserves network bandwidth by relaying only meaningful data back to the cloud. Michael Dell, the founder of Dell, says that “IoT is a trillion dollar market, so it’s not really surprising that everyone wants a piece”. In the case of Dell, the company is looking at IoT from a hardware point of view, […]