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insert these device certificates, we can completely program the flash,” Maupin explained, “so when these chips go to the manufacturer, they’re ready to go.” In some cases, existing pain points have caused companies to rise to the occasion, Panasonic included. Take the difficulty with device certification, which Boetius highlighted as a non-technical pain point: “If you get to the point where you have a finished Matter device in your hand and it works, it’s almost ready to be brought to the market. You still need to get a Bluetooth certification, a Thread certification, a Matter certification, and a device attestation.”
certification is more difficult, because there’s a lot of moving parts,” Maupin said. “We’re not a certification house and we don’t do anything for that. But we have certified our devices and understand this process.” Silicon Labs’ Custom Part Manufacturing Service (CPMS) is cognisant of the issues faced in securing IoT devices by offering manufacturers the ability to customise hardware and MCUs with security and certificates. The latter point is especially important for Matter, which requires certificates to be stored on the device securely.
“We can do custom identities, we can
Panasonic’s PAN-MaX certification service to streamline Matter enablement
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