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Semiconductor; Matt Maupin, Senior Product Manager and Rob Alexander, Principal Product Manager at Silicon Labs; Gweltas Radenac, Business Line Director - IoT at SEALSQ, a WISeKey subsidiary; and Mark Tekippe, VP of Product and Growth at Samsung SmartThings. Interviewing industry experts working in the Matter space showed that we aren’t necessarily where we want to be with the standard – however, everybody that I spoke to was incredibly optimistic about the standard and stressed that what Matter is trying to achieve is not something that is easily done in a day. As Kondel from NXP Semiconductor put it succinctly: “These are hard problems to tackle … The big thing is, what can we do as an industry to make it so that consumers want to buy these products and have a smart home?” This is the big-ticket question. For smart homes to work, they have to offer devices that are easy to set up and onboard, (an especially significant step as struggling to set things up can switch people off from purchasing Matter-compliant devices in the future) interoperability that is seamless, so devices do communicate with one another as intended, and have practical applications that end users would apply in their day-to-day lives. Just because someone could, in theory, set up a smart TV to notify a house owner when their dishes are done, doesn’t mean that they would. The overall aim was for me to understand not only how companies are individually approaching Matter, but what the experience has been like across the board;
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