Samsung has announced that it will be working with Matter to develop a smart home ecosystem that uses Matter’s technology. This will include devices like thermostats, lights, and door locks that can be controlled through the SmartThings app. This is a big step for Samsung as it tries to become more involved in the smart home market. Matter is a company that specializes in developing technology for the smart home. This will give Samsung an edge over competitors like Google and Amazon who are still waiting to develop their own ecosystems for the smart home.
The South Korean giant announced an expanded partnership with Google to not only welcome Matter products into its ecosystem, but also to support interoperability with Google’s own Home ecosystem. If you have any smart home devices set up in Google Home that SmartThings can support as well, it will prompt you to set them up on the other app, and vice versa. Users will no longer have to manually add each of their devices one at a time, nor will they have to worry about which ecosystem their device has been configured on initially.
And to allow for Matter products to be enrolled, Samsung’s SmartThings hubs are getting an update to support them very soon. Once the update is out, you’ll be able to control Matter devices through Wi-Fi and Ethernet via the v2 hub, while the AEOTEC v3 hub and the SmartThings dongle will also function as Thread border routers.
This update should arrive later this month, so if you’re in Samsung’s ecosystem of smart home products and you have any Matter devices, or if you were planning to buy any, you can expect them to work more closely very soon.
Source: Samsung, The Verge
