The three giants of Samsung, Intel and Dell have formed a partnership to standardise the process of creating household products and devices capable of working through the internet of things.

Known as the Open Interconnect Consortium (OIC), the partnership is also supported by a number of other electronics and internet component manufacturers such as Qualcomm, LG Electronics, Broadcom and Amtel, according to Reuters.

The reasoning behind this standardisation is that as the number of devices and companies becoming involved in the internet of things concept each with their own version, the growing number of devices that will be incompatible with each other will continue to grow, something which is obviously harmful to the concept of an interconnected household.

While other similar groups already exist such as AllSeen which recently became the 51st company to join, this new consortium hopes to offer increased security which these companies feel is not covered.

The first OIC open source code is expected to target the specific requirements of a smart home whereby the specifications could make it simple to remotely control and receive notifications from smart home appliances or enterprise devices using securely provisioned smartphones, tablets or PCs.