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jargon) but manufacturers had to puzzle out the solutions alone.
In hindsight, without a unifying standard, manufacturers were getting bogged down in the technical difficulties and consumers were being put off from smart home fabrics. In essence, it defeated the purpose of a ‘smart home’ if you were left to figure out how to connect your devices up. As Deepal Mehta, Senior Director of Marketing and Business Development at InnoPhase IoT once told me: “The beauty of the engineering is that you hide all the complexity from the customer.” AKA, even with Matter now on the market, developers and manufacturers still have to put a great deal of work into making sure a device works from day one, or risk putting off end users. EARLY INVOLVEMENT IN MATTER Matter had early ambitions to create interoperability between devices and although it was an industry-led effort pioneered by Amazon, Apple, Google and Samsung, other member companies of the CSA decided to get involved. Why? “I was so thrilled when I heard about Matter,” said Steve Hanna, Distinguished Engineer at Infineon Technologies, an early supporter and advocate for Matter, as he saw what the standard was capable of achieving. Today, Infineon is a promoter-level member of the CSA, which is the highest level of membership, and is actively involved in Matter. Hanna said his early advocacy for the standard was received well by Infineon, who he said was “100% supportive”, and explained that Matter reminded him of an
THE EXPLOSION IN SMART HOME DEVICES, PERHAPS BEST REPRESENTED BY SMART SPEAKERS AND THEIR GROWTH – WHICH IN 2024 WERE ESTIMATED TO BE OWNED BY ALMOST HALF OF 45–54-YEAR-OLDS
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