The smart home as a market is still quite fractured. The plethora of startups that rushed to the space in the wake of the Nest thermostat have found that VC funding has significantly slowed, and the ongoing media reports of security and nation state surveillance seems to have dampened enthusiasm for the increasingly connected home. And the icon of the scene, the aforementioned Nest, has apparently faltered since its $3.2bn acquisition by Google, and its subsequent $555m purchase of Dropcam. Nest has only rebranded and slightly tweaked the cameras it acquired, and is now positioned as a leader in the smart home market, but one that only has three products. A report from The Information released this week indicates that…