The well-known project between Apple, Google and Amazon was only missing a name to use a single smart home standard. This project called CHIP (Project Connected Home over IP) gives one more step in its evolution and it is renamed Matter.
In this case, for those who do not know anything about the project, we can advance that it is a kind of merger between the three big companies to use smart devices with any of their assistants, either: Siri or the Home app with Apple, Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant.
Each of the devices that receive this certificate to be used with the different home automation systems will have a printed logo (three arrows pointing towards the center) which is the one you can see in the image below. This will be the way to identify the products that work with the assistants from Apple, Amazon, and Google.
With Matter the Zigbee Alliance is "dissolved"
Right now what matters is that these large companies join in their protocols to make all smart devices work with their assistants or with their official applications. In this way the Zigbee protocol will be relegated with Matter, which does not mean that they stop working simply Matter will be the name used. In fact, Philips has already announced an update to its smart devices so that each and every one of its accessories will become compatible once Matter is launched.
There is no specific date on the launch of these, but the first devices certified by this alliance are expected to reach stores before the end of this year 2021. Very good news for all users and more for those who are "hooked" »To this of home automation. Since 2019 Apple, Amazon and Google work together on this project and it seems now is the time to launch it.
