M&A, Strategies, Alliances The Wireless IoT Forum has been launched by Accenture, Arkessa, BT, Cisco, Telensa and WSN. The group’s mandate is to remove fragmentation and drive consolidation around a minimal set of standards for both licensed and license-exempt wireless solutions. The Bluetooth SIG has appointed ARM, Broadcom and Plantronics to its board of directors. ABB and Philips have partnered to combine Philips Hue with ABB’s i-Jia home automation system in China. The Home Gateway Initiative will close in 2016 after the completion of its work, specifying the home gateways needed to support home wireless networks. Software Microsoft has submitted open source code to the Qualcomm-backed AllSeen Alliance’s AllJoyn project, called the Device System Bridge. It will allow legacy devices…