WHAT’S THE MATTER?

One of the biggest barriers to smart home adoption? It’s fragmentation. No, we’re not talking about your video doorbell falling to bits, but the fact that lots of smart home gear doesn’t play nice with lots of other smart home gear due to the fact that Amazon, Apple, Google and Samsung each have their own standards.

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Enter Matter, an alliance between those four tech titans that promises to simplify the way smart devices talk to each other. Matter works across existing techs like Wi-fi, Ethernet and Bluetooth – if you see its logo on a device, you’ll know it works with pretty much everything. Due to be available to developers by mid-2022, it should be in some products by the end of the year.