Can Matter save the smart home?

The Vergecast

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News, Tech News, Technology

4.4 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2021

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

In our final Vergecast Spec-tacular of the year, Dieter Bohn dives into Matter, the new tech standard that smart home gadgets will use to communicate with each other, making compatibility between gadgets significantly easier. Guests include: Verge smart home reviewer Jennifer Pattison Tuohy Michelle Mindala-Freeman, Head of Marketing for the Connectivity Standards Alliance. Tim Both, brand manager and product manager for Eve Samantha Fein, VP of Marketing and Business Development at Samsung SmartThings Further reading: Matter's plan to save the smart home What matters about Matter, the new smart home standard Matter could bring universal casting that actual works Smart home company Eve plans to use Matter to move beyond Apple’s HomeKit Amazon confirms its support for Matter Google shares its commitment to Matter, promises future interoperability between smart home platforms Samsung promises Matter support for SmartThings hubs, Galaxy devices, TVs, and fridges Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I would like to play a game with you.
0:02.2	Playing a game on a podcast is a little tricky, so we're going to keep it simple.
0:06.6	I'm just going to list a bunch of terms related to the smart home, and I want you to keep
0:11.0	track of how many you recognize.
0:13.5	Then when we're done, we might have like a one-question bonus round.
0:15.9	Okay, are you ready?
0:16.9	Here we go.
0:17.9	Zigbee Z-Wave 802.15.4 6L-O-W-P-A-N.
0:24.2	Thread, weave, Bluetooth, Bluetooth low energy, Wi-Fi, bridge, smart things, Alexa,
0:29.9	home assistant, Google home, and home kit.
0:32.6	Okay, did you keep track there?
0:34.2	Did you got your score?
0:35.2	Feel free to jump back and listen again if you need to.
0:37.5	Now, here's the bonus round question.
0:39.9	Do you think the number of smart home terms that you need to know is going to get bigger
0:44.4	or smaller in the future?
0:48.1	If there's any single category of technology that has been absolutely awash in too many
0:53.2	different standards, protocols, radios, and software stacks, it is the smart home.
0:59.5	Ten years ago, having smart switches or bulbs in your house was a domain of the very
1:03.4	rich or the very nerdy, the kind of people who would get crustaceans systems installed
1:08.0	in their house by professionals.
1:10.0	But now, thanks in large part to the echo and the smart speakers that followed, there
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