A deal between standards groups could help make home IoT easier

The Internet of Things is moving to the forefront of home networking as the variety of devices that can go online rapidly expands.
Reflecting this trend, the Open Interconnect Consortium is acquiring the assets of the Universal Plug and Play Forum, an organization formed about 15 years ago to standardize discovery and control of networked devices. 
UPnP is used in about 3 billion devices and plays a key background role in wireless home networks, especially the routers that usually sit at t