The smart home market has developed to 2022, and the functions and services of digital homes will continue to expand, but the industry still has the pain points of chaotic smart home ecology and inconsistent standards. Recently, the State Council issued the "14th Five-Year Plan for the Development of Digital Economy", which calls for creating a new digital life of smart sharing, accelerating the digital transformation of existing residential and community facilities, guiding the interconnection of smart home products, and enriching "one-key control", The "One Response" digital home life app. The Matter protocol came into being based on this demand, and its release and application will accelerate the interconnection of smart home products.
Matter is an application layer protocol newly launched by the CSA Connectivity Standards Alliance (formerly the Zigbee Alliance), a new, IP-based connectivity standard for connecting and building a reliable and secure IoT ecosystem.
Before the launch of Matter, the smart home devices produced by each device manufacturer could only be controlled through their own App and could not be interconnected with other ecological devices. This long-standing fragmentation between platforms and differences in development paths creates inconveniences for consumers and complicates the work of developers and innovators.
Matter's goal is to solve the current fragmentation of the smart home application layer, simplify development for manufacturers and improve compatibility for consumers. Through the Matter protocol, all Matter-enabled apps and hardware devices can easily and seamlessly interconnect and work together.
Infineon provides hardware and software support for the Matter standard for smart home customers. Many leading smart home products have adopted Infineon's AIROC™ Wi-Fi®, AIROC Bluetooth® and PSoC™ 6 MCU and OPTIGA™ Trust M products.
