There is an air of anticipation; that the Connected Home Over IP (CHIP) Project is about to release something juicy for the smart home – something that the operator crowd is going to sink its teeth into. However, we have been left disappointed before, and while it looks like a big reveal is being teased, the opacity of CHIP is detrimental. Faultline has spotted a handful of breadcrumbs that hint at the shape of the CHIP project’s efforts. In isolation, these crumbs are not particularly noteworthy, but they add up to something that deserves examining – a wireless stack that would join together multiple different wireless protocols within a home, allowing messages to be carried between devices regardless of their…