Qualcomm has announced its Mesh Networking Platform, a stack of technologies that it is pushing as a reference design for OEMs and broadband carriers to use in their smart home devices and services. With WiFi and Bluetooth Mesh, via Qualcomm’s CSRmesh tech, Qualcomm is also tightly integrating voice control – hoping to become a key choice for developers. While there still isn’t an agreed-upon architecture for a smart home, WiFi remains the sole consideration for the backhaul protocol – the link between high-bandwidth nodes within the home that in turn connect the low-power devices. With operators increasingly eyeing the home gateway as the ideal piece of CPE for integrating their own smart home ambitions with, the WiFi will act as…