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could solve the issue of interoperability in smart homes.
see what more could be done to provide better use cases and support for the industry.” As a result, the work that had been done on wireless signals helped to provide a building block for Matter. “It was able to draw upon the huge wealth of knowledge in the industry of how to make wireless work,” said Alexander. “It had use of Thread as a network transport for the low-cost side, but also then Wi-Fi as the high-bandwidth powerhouse it was. And then, of course, devices had evolved to the point where they could natively run IP, and that worked really well for them.” For people like Alexander, the work on making wireless signals work showed that these problems could be solved, and by virtue, seeing in Matter a standard that
According to Gweltas Radenac, Business Line Director - IoT at SEALSQ, who launched an IoT development board with Matter compatibility: “Our job was not relatively easy, but clear from the beginning … The beauty of the Matter protocol is [it’s] open source. Everybody can use it.”
TAKING THE LEAD FROM CUSTOMERS
Some of the people I spoke to about the standard were keen to stress that their approach to Matter, the CSA included, was informed by their customers’ requests (in the case of the CSA, their member companies). Even the inception of Matter happened because Google,
Silicon Labs’ multiprotocol wireless SoCs which support Matter connectivity
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