Matter, the universal standard for smart homes, is coming to fruition, and Amazon is opening up multiple toolkits

Even if a smart home device in a user's home is made by a different manufacturer, as long as it supports the Matter standard, it will all work on the user's smart home platform and will not require any special platform-specific programming by the developer. It's worth noting that the initial categories of devices supported by Matter include smart lighting, outlets, locks, thermostats, window shades, Wi-Fi, and more.

This also means that users' smart home devices are no longer limited by their smart home platform, allowing them to add devices to multiple platforms at once and control them with any Matter-compliant control device.

Matter-compliant control devices can be smart displays, speakers, smartphone apps, voice assistants, and more. Just like if a user adds a Matter-enabled device using Google's voice assistant Alexa, they can control it using Apple's HomeKit or Google Google Home.

This could also lead to more competition among smart home companies. Typically, each platform is committed to providing a better experience for users, and once the Matter standard is in place, those Matter-supported devices can quickly switch to another platform if that platform provides a poorer experience for users.

Second, Amazon pushed the Matter toolkit, so that devices do not have to pair automatically connected

Matter standard landing, will also need a lot of support for the standard of smart home devices.

Amazon released a series of tools to help developers build devices that support the Matter standard, and these devices can be applied to multiple platforms such as Alexa.

Amazon can also help developers add Matter-compatible attributes to existing products through bridging, Koopmans said. "It's not resetting (the device) with another protocol." She said, "Customers don't need to replace existing devices; the Matter standard builds on products that customers and device manufacturers already have."

A key feature of the Matter standard is the simplification of the smart home experience, which allows users to more easily add smart home devices to their homes. With this in mind, Amazon has introduced Frustration Free Setup (FFS) for smart homes, which means smart home devices can be automatically added to a user's smart home platform without pairing after launch.

Amazon already offers FFS for the Matter standard, which developers can choose for their development. Smart lighting company Sengled, home router manufacturer TP-LINK, Matter over Wi-Fi devices, floor sweeper manufacturer Eve, and smart lighting hardware and software developer Nanoleaf all use FFS in their devices. By adding FFS directly to the Matter SDK, developers don't need an Amazon-specific SDK at all," Koopmans explained. Koopmans explained.

In addition, Amazon has released a new software toolkit based on Ambient Home, which allows device makers to leverage Alexa's capabilities even more deeply to develop new features that Koopmans says will help device makers build products that are different from the Alexa platform.