This chipset may prevent a network cacophony in your smart home

Choosing smart-home products might get easier a year from now thanks to a Broadcom chipset that will be able to work with several competing network systems.
There's a long list of protocols and software frameworks going into the Internet of Things for the home, and a lot of them don't work together. The vision of a house full of devices that can automatically find each other and work in perfect harmony is still just that, and it's unlikely any one product will make that possible. But Broadcom i