Matter: IoT Interoperability for Smart Homes

TL;DR

This paper discusses Matter, a universal IoT connectivity standard designed to improve interoperability among smart home devices, analyzing its design, features, and potential impact on the smart home industry.

Contribution

It provides an overview and evaluation of Matter, highlighting its role as a new standard to address interoperability issues in smart home IoT devices.

Findings

Matter enhances device interoperability in smart homes

The standard improves communication reliability among IoT devices

Future directions include expanding device support and security features

Abstract

The smart home is a major Internet of Things (IoT) application domain with tremendous market expectations. However, communication solutions for smart home devices have exhibited a lack of interoperability, challenging the success of the smart home concept. Aiming to overcome this problem, crucial industry organizations have collaborated to produce Matter, a connectivity solution intended as a universal smart home standard. This paper overviews, evaluates and discusses Matter, focusing on its design, features, performance, and future directions.