Deutsche Telekom has teamed with fellow operator Orange to work with the Eclipse Foundation on a cloud-based API (application programming interface) for smart home devices, based on the OneM2M standard. Speaking to DT about Smart Home as a Service (SHaaS) revealed the stickiness of the offerings, but also a sense of frustration with the slow pace of the market – which has been sluggish in both the service and direct-to-consumer retail sectors. With Orange (which has just joined the Eclipse Foundation), DT will be demonstrating a new showcase of how an open standards approach can provide a better consumer and developer ecosystem. Specifically, the Foundation is hoping that the demo convinces smart home developers to adopt its Eclipse oneM2M and Eclipse SmartHome frameworks. The Eclipse…