The IoT is splintered between a huge number of industry groups, all jostling to influence standards, and consolidation is bound to follow. That will sometimes see technologies which were once regarded as cutting edge, being swallowed up by the shiny new alliances of the IoT, and that is happening in the smart home environment, with the acquisition of the UPnP Forum by the Open Interconnect Consortium (OIC) The OIC was set up last year to define a standard way for embedded devices to discover one another and connect. The UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) Forum was established 15 years ago with a similar aim in mind, but with different technologies and use cases at its fingertips – it mainly governs…