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| Google confirms its commitment to the Matter smart home standard |
At the company's Smart Home Developer Summit, Google demonstrated how the new Matter smart home standard works in our smart home, and the company announced new tools to help developers ensure compatibility with Google Home and the new Matter-Create Connectivity Standard. The device is suitable for any environment. other physical ecosystems.
This means that the new Nest Thermostat will soon work in the Apple Home app without the need for a home assistant or other workaround.
For the next year, Matter is an open smart home application protocol that promises smart home devices can communicate with each other no matter who created them. The standard is supposed to take on the challenging task of selecting, configuring and integrating devices with smart homes and voice assistants.
At the event, the company confirmed its commitment to support Matter and its primary support protocol, Thread (Low Power Mesh Network), across the ecosystem. It also revealed the new name for its smart home products, Google Home.
The new Google Home brings together device settings development, automation and voice control, Android devices and Google Nest under one roof.
According to the company, the new name applies to the entire smart home platform and the entire development program. A new Google Home Developer Center has also been announced.
Google promises interoperability between smart home platforms
The Developer Center is a central point of contact for the development of all content related to smart homes and offers new tools to accelerate critical applications in smart homes.
The Google Home Device SDK can help developers quickly build and integrate Matter devices. So it could be prepared when the Standard Edition comes out next year. This can also happen if Google promises to use Matter to help update Nest and Android devices.
Bring native Android support through Google Play Services and the new Google Home Mobile SDK, which provides critical support for mobile devices and apps to simplify settings for smart home devices.
This means that setting up a Matter-enabled device such as a light bulb or smart plug is as easy as turning it on and opening an app. (Google Home or the manufacturer's app). The app then does most of the tasks of connecting to your wireless network, thread, and any other device you own.