Having hosted him on a panel at last year’s Connected World, Riot caught up with Yonomi’s co-founder and CEO, Kent Dickson this week. Founded in 2013, the company is co-headquartered in Austin, TX and Boulder, CO. We spoke to Dickson about his unabashed optimism about the diverse potential of the smart home market, as well getting down into the detail of how Yonomi operates. Yonomi is a smart home integration platform with the mantra of “agnostic interoperability. Our goal is to make it easy for innovators to build great apps that connect with the smart home,” Dickson explained. This view towards open, interoperable smart homes seemed at odds with much of what we have been writing at Riot recently.…