Comcast is acquiring the company behind the software in its Xfinity Home offering, Icontrol Networks – which supports home security sensors as well as cameras and other connected home use cases such as smart meters. Icontrol’s superfluous assets will be acquired with security firm Alarm.com, as Comcast evidently didn’t want the whole package. Icontrol’s Converge software platform is the prize Comcast has targeted, which is the backbone of the touch-screens and servers in the Xfinity Home service. Converge supports WiFi and ZigBee enabled security devices, and says it can also reuse wired or wireless sensors, keypads and peripherals from existing security systems, enabling security system “takeovers”. The white-label Converge product is popular among North American cable operators, and can be…