Dell Packs Analytics in IoT Gateway
At its annual Dell World conference, the PC giant took a bigger step into the Internet of Things. Dell announced a new IoT gateway with embedded analytics, initially for industrial automation and transit, and a new custom IoT engineering team.
“The explosion in devices is really just beginning,” CEO Michael Dell said during a keynote speech. “[Machine-to-machine] communications, artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, drones, [and] enormous amounts of sensors are the next trillion dollar opportunity for growth in connectivity. The ability of business to compete will be its ability to process and analyze that application.”
The Dell Edge Gateway 500 series meant to aggregate IoT data is based on the Intel Atom processor E3800 family and runs at 1.3-1.75 GHz. It has expanded input and output interfaces, a wide range of operating temperatures, and access to data analytics capabilities along with a flexible choice of OSes.