Huawei has made its entrance into the IoT smart home market by revealing the first device manufacturers to run its LiteOS lightweight operating system. In addition, the Chinese giant has also unveiled a new communications standard platform, HiLink – which could cause some challenges for AllJoyn and IoTivity. While Huawei will provide the communication framework for devices, the device will come from Chinese smart home technology companies Haier and Broadlink – with a few more suppliers apparently in on it. LiteOS, under Huawei’s sub-brand Honor, is an open source SDK and Huawei claims it is faster and smaller than other IoT operating systems currently on the market – at about one quarter of the size. The open source HiLink platform…