Service providers have increasingly looked at offering more services to their customers, as a way of reducing churn. The premise is simple: it’s harder to cancel a home phone, pay TV and broadband (triple-play) package than it is to end a single-play offering. With smart home products and services, those operators have the chance to sell a much stickier platform to their subscribers – as it’s much harder to return a set of connected door locks or a HVAC system than it is to ship a set top back to an operator. So the smart home initially looks like the next logical step for the likes of Comcast, AT&T and Sky. A bundled subscription offering removes the current bottleneck of…