What distinguishes Matter from other smart home standards is its momentum; the majority of the industry is on board. Matter is being developed by Amazon, Apple, Google / Nest, and Samsung, as well as many other smart home and smart home-adjacent firms including Lutron, iRobot, Signify (Philips Hue), Ikea, and others, and is organised by the Connectivity Standards Alliance (or CSA, previously the Zigbee Alliance).
Driven by a shared desire to solve the smart home’s difficulties, these firms are collaborating to figure out how to make this standard the one that stays. Can Matter ultimately put an end to the perplexity captured by Randall Munroe’s iconic xkcd “Standards” comic?
“This is a Renaissance [for the smart home],” says Tobin Richardson, the CSA’s president and CEO. “Most, if not all, of the industry has decided that [Matter] will be the way this will happen.” They appear to agree that Matter is the solution to the smart home’s main problems: simplicity, interoperability, dependability, and security.
