Matter 1.5 adds cameras, irrigation sensors, shading controls and energy management, boosting interoperability and expanding features for modern smart homes.
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Matter 1.5 adds cameras, irrigation sensors, shading controls and energy management, boosting interoperability and expanding features for modern smart homes.
Homey introduces the Matter Bridge app, allowing users to bring non-Matter devices—including Zigbee, Z-Wave, Infrared and 433 MHz products—into Matter-compatible platforms. This update lets users keep their existing hardware while integrating with Apple Home, Google Home, Alexa, SmartThings and Home Assistant. The new app strengthens Homey’s position as a universal smart home hub and significantly improves overall interoperability.
IKEA has given its Dirigera smart home hub a comprehensive update. This turns the device into a fully-fledged Matter controller.
AWS has announced the general availability of Managed Integrations – a new feature within AWS IoT Device Management
A complete guide to essential IoT protocols like MQTT, CoAP, LoRaWAN, Zigbee, Matter & more – for smart home, industrial IoT, and M2M use cases.
Under the leadership of the Zigbee Alliance, many well-known manufacturers have been working for some time now on a uniform standard for devices in the smart home. “Connected Home over IP” (CHIP), as it has been called so far, is not based on the Zigbee protocol, but on WiFi, Thread and Bluethooth. Now the cat is out of the bag: The Zigbee Alliance has renamed to Connectivity Standards Alliance, and CHIP became “Matter”.
