About Us

DSL has been designing and building embedded computing solutions since 1985. Today we have a team of highly experienced industrial computing and electronic engineering specialists who provide some of the most robust and reliable off-the-shelf or uniquely designed solutions that help our myriad of clients across lots of different market sectors to deliver exceptional products and services to their customers. We are a safe pair of hands who you can trust to deliver the right high quality product at the right time, with the added value technical support you need, exactly when you need it most.

Our Company History

Datasound Laboratories Ltd (DSL) is a U.K. company located within the business technology park in Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire. After designing our first embedded target platform in 1985 we formally became Datasound Laboratories Ltd (DSL) in August 1991.

Growing organically year on year, we have constantly been at the forefront of new technologies and are recognised as a leading specialist supplier of embedded/industrial computing solutions to the OEM market.

Contributing to our product range is a variety of products covering Panel PCs, Industrial PCs, Industrial Display Monitors and other off-the-shelf industry products. In satisfying the day to day demand for these products DSL distributes on behalf of established Taiwanese manufacturers such as ICOP Technology and Aplex Technology. Read more about our partners here.

Over sixty percent of DSL’s activity is the design (and on-going supply) of embedded solutions via performance optimised, cost-effective target platforms. These tend to encompass a wide range of x86 and ARM architecture, microcontroller and embedded systems.

Our Expert Team

We are a close-knit team of tech-savvy industrial computing and electronic engineering specialists, who use that knowledge, built up over many years, to design, build, implement or source the right product or solution that our clients need to be successful. We have a personalised approach to building client relationships and deal with our clients in the way we like to be dealt with – doing things quickly and efficiently, whilst also taking responsibility for solving any issues that arise.

Our Vision

To be the UK’s leading cradle-to-grave industrial computing and electronics solutions provider across all industries, from off-the-shelf products to fully bespoke product realisation. We deliver or support every stage of our client’s projects through design, prototyping, certification and on-going manufacture in-house. We enable our clients to focus on their core competency whilst we realise their products, exceeding expectations of functionality, reliability and longevity.

Our Values

To operate with complete integrity and transparency at all times, presenting factual information, regardless of whether it is positive or negative. We work hard and help each other to make our client’s jobs easier, seeking every opportunity to go the extra mile and provide ‘wow’ moments throughout a relationship.

Our Facilities

We are constantly investing in the latest technology that enables us to provide our customers with the highest possible quality of service and experience. For example, we have our own onsite testing facilities which include an environmental temperature chamber and thermal imaging gun that clients can use, free of charge, whenever they need to. We also take our obligations under the WEEE directive very seriously and offer an electronics recycling scheme to our customers who don’t have their own schemes in place.

Our-ISO-Standards

We have been an ISO9001 accredited (an independent endorsement of a company’s Quality Management System) company since May 1995. We are unreservedly committed to quality, to establish and maintain systems of management that promote excellence, avoid errors and satisfy our customers learn more about our expertise.