The living room of a San Jose, Calif. home rented by Netgear to test out its equipment before offering it to the public. (Dan Honda/Bay Area News Group)
SAN JOSE, California: In Silicon Valley, the house next door might not be full of techies, but it could be stuffed with tech products.
Up in the East San Jose hills, where suburban developments give way to isolated homesteads, Netgear rents a house where it tries out equipment to make sure it's ready for market. Nestled into a residential neighbourhood in Menlo Park, startup Plume rents a new two-story house to test its WiFi system. On Communications Hill in San Jose, KB Home has a model house to show off the smart home products customers can get preinstalled. And startup Abode uses three homes rented by its co-founders as its labs.
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