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[
    {
        "idx": 1,
        "result": "supported"
    },
    {
        "idx": 2,
        "result": "unsupported"
    }
]

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Matter 1.0 spec aims for interoperable smart home IoT

Matter 1.0 specification helps alleviate challenges of different device ecosystems, products and protocols with one unified standard for smart home applications.

Matter 1.0 spec aims for interoperable smart home IoT

The Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA) has released the Matter 1.0 specification and opened the Matter certification program, a move which aims to deliver better interoperability between internet of things (IoT) connected devices, mainly in smart homes.

With the announcement, the CSA said member companies who make up all facets of the IoT now have a complete program for bringing next generation of interoperable products that work across brands and platforms to market with greater privacy, security, and simplicity for consumers. As part of the Matter 1.0 release, authorized test labs are open for product certification, the test harnesses and tools are available, and the open-source reference design software development kit (SDK) is complete. In addition, alliance members with devices already deployed and with plans to update their products to support Matter can now do so, once their products are certified.

The Matter 1.0 standard launches with test cases and comprehensive test tools for members of the alliance and a global certification program including eight authorized test labs who are primed to test not only Matter, but also Matter’s underlying network technologies, Wi-Fi and Thread. Wi-Fi enables Matter devices to interact over a high-bandwidth local network and allows smart home devices to communicate with the cloud. Thread provides an energy efficient and highly reliable mesh network within the home.

This initial release of Matter, running over Ethernet, Wi-Fi, and Thread, and using Bluetooth Low Energy for device commissioning, will support a variety of common smart home products, including lighting and electrical, HVAC controls, window coverings and shades, safety and security sensors, door locks, media devices including TVs, controllers as both devices and applications, and bridges.

Google announced its Nest WiFi Pro built with Matter, which is meant to connect and control all Matter devices seamlessly. (Image: Google)

Working with Thread and Wi-Fi

Both the Wi-Fi Alliance and Thread Group partnered with the CSA to help realize the complete vision of Matter. Thread Group president Vividh Siddha said, “Matter and Thread resolve interoperability and connectivity issues in smart homes so manufacturers can focus on other value-adding innovations. Thread creates a self-healing mesh network which grows more responsive and reliable with each added device, and its ultra-lower power architecture extends battery life. Combined, Thread with Matter is a powerful choice for product companies and a great value for consumers.”

Adding to this, Edgar Figueroa, president and CEO, Wi-Fi Alliance, said, “Matter leverages Wi-Fi’s sophisticated network efficiency, global pervasiveness of more than 18 billion devices in use today, and robust standards-based foundation to help deliver the IoT vision. Together, Wi-Fi CERTIFIED and Matter bring simple and secure interoperability for a better user experience with a wide range of IoT devices.”

Tobin Richardson, president and CEO of the Connectivity Standards Alliance, commented, “What started as a mission to unravel the complexities of connectivity has resulted in Matter, a single, global IP-based protocol that will fundamentally change the IoT. This release is the first step on a journey our community and the industry are taking to make the IoT more simple, secure, and valuable no matter who you are or where you live. With global support from companies large and small, today’s Matter 1.0 release is more than a milestone for our organization and our members; it is a celebration of what is possible.”

Over 280 member companies — including Amazon, Apple, Comcast, Google, Signify and SmartThings — have brought their technologies, experience, and innovations together to ensure Matter met the needs of all stakeholders including users, product makers, and platforms. Collectively, these companies led the way through requirements and specification development, reference design, multiple test events and final specification validation to reach this industry milestone.

“We would not be where we are today without the strength and dedication of the alliance members who have provided thousands of engineers, intellectual property, software accelerators, security protocols, and the financial resources to accomplish what no single company could ever do on their own,” said Bruno Vulcano, chair of the Alliance board and R&D manager for Legrand Digital Infrastructure. “With members equally distributed throughout the world, Matter is the realization of a truly global effort that will benefit manufacturers, customers and consumers alike, not just in a single region or continent.”

Addressing smart homes and sustainability

According to market research firm ABI Research, by 2030, more than 1.5 billion Matter certified devices will ship annually. In addition, over that period, a vast range of consumer robotics, smart appliances, and other emerging smart home device types are expected to be drawn into smart home system engagement.

Beyond convenience and automation, connected devices and services in the smart home will provide energy-efficient solutions to solve social and environmental challenges. Within total worldwide electricity consumption, residential buildings make up 29 percent. Space cooling, heating and refrigeration are among the largest power consumers. Here, the interconnection of smart things opens up great potential for reducing energy consumption. For example, smart home networks can learn users’ personal temperature preferences in different situations to adapt them automatically. Sensor-based controls can turn off lights, heating and air conditioning when no one is in the room. And intelligent smart home networks can start washing machines or car charging when renewable energies are available.

Key players in IoT driving CSA

The Connectivity Standards Alliance was formerly the Zigbee Alliance, established in 2002 with a wide-ranging global membership collaborating to create and evolve universal open standards for the IoT. Its board of directors is comprised of executives from Amazon, Apple, ASSA ABLOY, Comcast, Google, Huawei, IKEA, Infineon Technologies AG, The Kroger Co., Latch Systems, LEEDARSON, Legrand, LG Electronics, Lutron Electronics, Midea, Nordic Semiconductor, NXP Semiconductors, OPPO, Resideo, Schneider Electric, Signify, Silicon Labs, SmartThings, Somfy, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments, Tuya, and Wulian.

Silicon Labs and Infineon Technologies outlined the significance of the standard.

Infineon said the Matter 1.0 specification helps alleviate the challenges of having different device ecosystems, products and protocols communicate by offering one unified standard for device makers to follow for many smart home applications including smart locks, lighting, thermostats, security systems, sensors and media devices. The company said it joined CSA and over 280 companies to pioneer the game-changing Matter standard to make ease-of-use, interoperability, security and sustainability a reality in the smart home.

“Our homes are the center of our daily activities, from work to leisure,” said Thomas Rosteck, division president for connected secure systems at Infineon. “We believe that having one standard solves the fragmentation of the smart home market, which will be the key in opening doors to drive better connectivity, digitalization and decarbonization in this market. The Matter initiative and Infineon’s integrated Matter solutions will allow consumers to customize, connect and control their smart home experience in a simple and secure way, while optimizing energy usage in the most effective manner.”

Infineon’s Matter solutions include its new PSoC 62S2 Wi-Fi BT Pioneer Kit which helps developers and engineers achieve reliable, ultra-low power Matter over Wi-Fi solutions. The combination of PSoC 6x ULP MCU and AIROC CYW43xx Bluetooth/Wi-Fi SoCs supports a reliable, low power implementation of Matter over Wi-Fi edge devices, while provisioning over Bluetooth/Bluetooth Low Energy.

The high-performance, low-power AIROC CYW30739 multi-protocol SoC (Bluetooth Low Energy 5.3, IEEE 802.15.4) has completed Thread 1.3 certification, which is the foundation for Matter over Thread devices. Matter-compatible OPTIGA security solutions easily integrate into embedded systems to protect the confidentiality, integrity and authenticity of information and devices. The solutions scale from basic authentication chips to sophisticated implementations. All these solutions leverage the ModusToolBox development platform.

At a recent press event in Europe coinciding with its Works with Developers Conference in Austin, Texas (U.S), Silicon Labs highlighted that the Matter standard will be one of the biggest drivers for a new era of IoT for the smart home. Matter provides an IPv6 app layer which enables a unifying application layer bringing together multiple smart home ecosystems, solving the interoperability challenge between different ecosystems, and reducing IoT product development complexity.

How Matter stacks up. (Image: Silicon Labs)

To help with adoption, Silicon Labs announced a portfolio of hardware and software solutions that provide complete, end-to-end Matter development kits for all ecosystems and wireless protocols. The central component of its platform is the Silicon Labs 2.4 GHz wireless MG24 SoC for Bluetooth and multiple-protocol operations, supporting Matter over Thread as a single-chip solution. The MG24 has an effective range of up to 200 meters indoors for OpenThread while enabling Bluetooth commissioning of new devices on the same chip. When the MG24 is combined with the Silicon Labs RS9116 Wi-Fi product, it enables development of Matter over Wi-Fi 4 with an easy transition to Silicon Labs’ Wi-Fi 6 single-chip Matter SoC in 2023.

For Matter border routers, Silicon Labs Unify SDK is a multi-protocol software development platform that provides the tools to bridge Matter to other IoT platforms, including Zigbee and Z-Wave; and Silicon Labs Simplicity Studio and GSDK provide developers a single development environment for enabling Matter on wireless devices and seamlessly connecting them to their desired ecosystem.

So for Bluetooth, Thread, Wi-Fi, Zigbee, or Z-Wave, Silicon Labs said it offers hardware, software, and development tool solutions to enable developers to bridge their products to Matter and all the major smart device ecosystems. The MG24 Matter-ready SoC, RS9116 Wi-Fi SoC, the multiprotocol Unify SDK, Simplicity Studio, and the Gecko SDK are available today for developers and designers to begin designing Matter-ready products using the wireless protocol of their choice.

Largest code contributor to Matter

Silicon Labs principal product manager for Matter, Rob Alexander, said in a
blog
that his company has been highly invested in Matter’s success and creation from the ground up. He commented, “As an active member of the Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA), we are one of the largest code contributors to the platform, and the largest code contributor of any semiconductor vendor. To accelerate its adoption, we have a portfolio of hardware and software solutions for Matter that provide a complete, end-to-end Matter development platform for all ecosystems and wireless protocols.”

He added that every Matter solution it offers features Silicon Labs Secure Vault, bringing a high level of IoT security and reliability to devices. “The IoT security enabled within our platform will protect these devices and their users against cyberattacks and other potential threats to privacy.”

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1. The global smart home market is on an exponential growth trajectory through 2030–2035, driven by rising consumer demand for convenience, energy efficiency, security, and health-related applications. Across regions, the industry is evolving from isolated gadgets toward interoperable, AI‑driven platforms tightly integrated with energy systems, healthcare, and assisted living use cases. Key product trends include AI‑first security devices, advanced home energy management systems (HEMS), health and wellness monitoring (especially air quality and sleep), aging‑in‑place solutions, and devices built on interoperability standards such as Matter. These categories are expected to define the next decade of product development and become major growth engines for the smart home industry.
2. Emerging product segments such as smart furniture, smart HVAC, and ambient assisted living (AAL) systems are forecast to grow faster than legacy categories as they incorporate richer sensing and automation. At the same time, growing standardization and interoperability initiatives, especially Matter, are reshaping product roadmaps by pushing vendors toward integrated platforms rather than standalone devices.
3. Interoperability has been a chronic pain point in smart home deployments, historically fragmenting ecosystems around vendor‑specific hubs and protocols. Matter, an open, IP‑based application layer specification from the Connectivity Standards Alliance, aims to address this by providing a common data model and control layer across devices using Wi‑Fi, Thread, Ethernet, and Bluetooth LE for commissioning. All certified Matter products are required to interoperate regardless of manufacturer or ecosystem, and support multi‑admin control so that devices can be managed by multiple platforms such as Apple Home, Google Home, Alexa, and SmartThings.
4. Matter currently supports core device classes including lighting and electrical, HVAC controls, door locks, safety and security sensors, media devices, window coverings, and bridges, with newer versions adding support for energy management, water leak sensors, robot vacuums, and more. Market research from ABI Research projects smart home device shipments reaching around 1.5 billion units by 2030, with more than 1.5 billion Matter‑certified devices shipping annually by that time, underlining the standard’s central role in future product development.
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