Xiaomi has entered into a mutually beneficial contract with China’s Tell Labs that’ll help bolster its Internet of Things (IoT). The contract was signed on November 3 at Xiaomi’s Mobile Internet Industrial Park in Beijing.
Fan Dian, general manager of Xiaomi IoT Platform Department and Wei Ran, director of China Institute of Information and Communications Technology’s Tell Terminal Laboratory, respectively signed the cooperation agreement on the joint AIoT laboratory on behalf of the two parties.
The outfit will be known as Xiaomi & Tell Intelligent Internet of Things (AIoT) Joint Laboratory and will focus on the typical application scenarios of the intelligent Internet of Things, such as smart homes, to carry out user experience research, plan formulation, test evaluation, and exploration of new technologies and new scenarios. The joint laboratory will be built in Xiaomi Yizhuang Industrial Park and Taiercui Lake Base. It will create a one-stop service platform to provide technical guidance, standard interpretation, test plan customization, test verification, and technical consultation and training services for Xiaomi and Xiaomi’s IoT ecosystem partners.
Further, the joint lab will help Xiaomi and its IoT ecosystem partners to continuously improve product quality and user experience. The laboratory will also work with other partners in the industry to jointly create industry standards and evaluation programs to promote the healthy and orderly development of the industry.
As the world’s leading AIoT smart home brand, Xiaomi’s IoT platform has more than 271 million connected devices, serving 55.99 million households around the world, with Xiaomi’s virtual smart assistant XiaoAI having more than 78.4 million monthly active users.
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