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Figure 1: Prospective users of smart homes from the 2016 survey were more likely to perceive potential risks of smart home technologies
planning and national policy, but that SHT developers were “recognising the challenge of gaining the trust and confidence of prospective users”. The most significant barriers to adoption reported were cost, lack of awareness, and privacy concerns, alongside security, reliability, and the “interoperability of different technologies”. One conclusion drawn from the survey [1] was that respondents, while citing their concerns, were not averse to adoption, and that smart home developers could go a long way in reassuring them of the benefits of adoption by designing secure tech: 80% of respondents, however, agreed or strongly agreed that SHTs should be designed to be reliable, easy to use, controllable, and easy to override and guarantee privacy, confidentiality, and secure data storage. ENTER MATTER. As an open-source project, the standard invites anyone working on Matter to view
and modify the standard accordingly. The value of having an open-source project means the developers and manufacturers who are implementing the standard in smart home devices are able to feed back on what works well, and what doesn’t; what areas have room for improvement and what perhaps needs to be focused on for the next version. The steady releases of Matter versions has shown the Connectivity Standards Alliance’s (CSA) own desire to improve the standard, partly by responding to what people are looking for from their smart homes. For this technical article, I spoke to Chris LaPre, Head of Technology at the CSA; Chetan Joshi, Lead Product Manager at Panasonic Industry Europe; Steve Hanna, Distinguished Engineer at Infineon Technologies; Sujata Neidig, Marketing Director and Neal Kondel, Director of Product Marketing and Management at NXP Semiconductors; Finn Boetius, Product Marketing Manager at Nordic
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