Amazon revealed recently plans to launch Matter on some of its Echo devices in December.
Matter is a communication protocol created by over 200 companies that’s meant to unify the smart home standard under a single banner.Zigbee
, Z-Wave, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth, but none of these standards managed to become the main radio protocol of the smart home devices. What’s even worse is that they don’t communicate well together. The Matter protocol is supposed to provide smart home devices owners with that plug and use experience that seem to be far away at the moment. This open-source connectivity standard makes use of multiple technologies, including Thread, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and ethernet to make it easier for your smart home devices to communicate with each other locally.
Apparently, Matter is supported by all the companies who already have their own protocol, including Zigbee, Philips Hue, Ecobee, iRobot, and giants like Amazon, Apple, Google and . That’s one of the reasons that Matter is more likely to become the new radio standard for smart home devices.
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