A look at the industry-backed smart home standard Matter, slated for mid-2022, and whether it can achieve its promises to fix smart home interoperability
The smart home should be a natural evolution of our homes, bringing better appliances, better systems, better experiences.
This is a good article. I'm so excited for IP-based local-execution smart home tech. So far to achieve this you need to buy sketchy “cloud-based” devices and use their prevalent security holes to flash a local capable firmware. Really hope Matter will fix that. https://twitter.co…
Good dose of reality here from @tfadell, who btw was right about the smarthome and right about Thread (er Weave) - but too early in both cases https://twitter.com/...
This is the definitive story on Matter (formerly Connected Home over IP) from @jp2e you didn't know you needed, but believe me it's worth it. https://www.theverge.com/...
This is an awesome, awesome story/podcast combo on Matter, and the maybe-possibly-hopefully bright future of the smart home https://www.theverge.com/...
Really great reporting from Jen here on whether the whole industry getting behind a new smarthome standard will actually pay off on the hype -> https://twitter.com/...
Apple, Google, and Amazon have teamed up to fix the smart home with a new standard called Matter Walled gardens have stifled innovation as developers focus on getting their devices to work with three or four or more different platforms #IoT via @Verge https://www.theverge.com/...…