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And we have got a good episode for you today that's going to give you hope for your smart home.

Samsung and IKEA are partnering on smart home devices thanks to the matter and thread standard.

But there's far more interoperability coming because of those standards.

And if you're like, yeah, I keep hearing about matter and thread and like I keep getting

confused with Instagram's threads and what is it and

why do I need a border router? Well, thank goodness we asked Richard Gunther to join us to help us

understand what's going on. Richard, thank you for being here. Greetings. Glad to join you to talk

about this standards soup we're in. Yes, it's a delicious stew of standards.

But it's going to make things simpler once we work through it.

Let's start with matter.

What is matter versus thread?

Let's talk about those two.

Yeah, so, you know, I joke about a soup of standards.

In the SmartHodom industries, I joke about a soup of standards.

In the SmartHodom industries, there have been so many different technologies in use over the years.

And for a long time, the joke was, well, the thing that we need to fix the problem with all these standards is to make another standard.

Yeah, it's a classic XKCD comic in the making right there. Right, right?

So, you know, you had stuff that people are used to hearing if they're thinking smartwave like Z wave or smart home like Z wave and Bluetooth and all join was one of those things way back when.

Oh, man.

That takes me back.

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