Today, there are thousands of different smart devices and companies apply their own standards on most of these products. this is the situation Matter with history.
Firstly Project CHIP named, then Matter The standard, which has earned its name, is a smart home products partnership for those who do not know yet. Behind this partnership Apple, Amazon, Google, IKEA, Legrand, NXP Semiconductors, Resideo, Samsung SmartThings, Schneider Electric, Huawei, Signify, Silicon Labs, Somfy and wulian names such as There are now more than 280 companies in the process and these companies are “smart home equipment/devices” for establishes a single open standard.
It enables many smart home accessories to work together in multiple ecosystems. Matter, the new smart home connectivity standard, one of the key figures in the process. It is defined by Apple as: “Matter is a smart home connectivity technology that enables various smart home accessories on different platforms to work together. You can seamlessly control your Matter and HomeKit-enabled accessories with the Home app and Siri. Matter offers a wide range of accessories for your home and compatibility with these accessories. While doing all this, it maintains the highest level of security.”
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Great future prospect Matter for today The Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA) A debut event was organized by the company and thus the new era has officially started. According to the information given within the scope of the event 190 different devices are already waiting for certification for the standard. In other words, in the new period where there will be no problem in finding devices, in addition to many new devices that will arrive before the end of 2022, some products that are already on sale are also available. It will be updated with Matter support.
For example, the hub for Philips’ smart products hub bridge, new will begin to support the new standard at the beginning of the year. It is said that the standard itself will be updated every six months and so new features will be constantly offered.
Longtime Zigbee Alliance‘Thanks to the infrastructure led by the company, the integration of devices with each other will become easier than ever before. This will make life easier for producers as well as consumers. Thus, products can be customized quickly and conveniently for a single platform / standard instead of different standards. In particular, within the framework of the common standard compatibility, security and facilitating the production process topics will be focused.