Google details how interconnected Matter smart home standard will work on Android and Nest
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Google is one of the major companies behind the upcoming interconnected cross-platform smart home standard Matter, and today, the company has explained how it’ll work to support Matter with its Android devices and Nest smart home products.
To start, the company is promising that all of its Nest displays and speakers will be updated to enable them to control Matter devices. That means once the update arrives (Google isn’t giving a timeframe yet), you’ll be able to use Google Assistant to control any Matter device, whether it was previously part of Google’s smart home platform or not.
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(Pocket-lint) - If you ve ever wondered why certain smart home devices work with some but not other counterparts, you ll want to know about Matter - the latest wireless interoperability standard threatening to shake up the industry.
In the works since 2019, with companies like Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung and the Zigbee Alliance at the heart, the artist formerly known as Project CHIP has now been transformed into a shiny, formalised brand - Matter.
The aim of Matter is still the same, but everything is now set to become much more official. The big names behind the protocol will soon be throwing their products into the newly-unified state, and that inevitably has a knock-on effect for consumers.