Back at CES, Qualcomm was showing off the latest advances with its AllPlay multi-room audio protocol, which as its name suggests is based on the AllJoyn architecture that is being pushed as the pivotal IoT standard by the AllSeen Alliance. This week Qualcomm held an analyst briefing for those who didn’t make it to CES, and it looks like Qualcomm is storming ahead in the race. While Apple’s HomeKit still hasn’t materialized, Google and its Nest-subsidiary-led Thread Group is set to unveil its standard in the summer. The Open Interconnect Consortium has just released its IoTivity device discovery and management platform, but Qualcomm has been ahead of the pack for some time now – now in the second year of…