Google's Matter Wants To Upgrade Your Smart Home: Here's How It Works
Google has unveiled its support for Matter, a new internet-of-things protocol it helped develop that aims to create a unified smart home network. The company has put a lot of emphasis on its smart home ecosystem, with a slew of devices from smart speakers to displays. When Google bought the smart home company Nest in cash for more than $3 billion back in 2014, it doubled down on its vision for the smart home. The acquisition unified the Google Home and Nest brands, which added cameras, doorbells, and thermostats to the company's smart home offerings. Now, it's working on a universal standard that would connect Google Home and Nest products with third-party devices and accessories.
In recent years, Google has attempted to create an ecosystem of products and services similar to Apple's model that has been abundantly successful. With Google Drive, Chrome, Android, and Google Home all under one roof it's easy to see how powerful an interconnected ecosystem from Google could be. The company is sharing new features and developments across the various platforms, which is making the entire conglomerate stronger as a whole. At I/O 2022, Google announced an updated version of the Pixel Buds Pro, and now it appears that Google will bring a key feature from the headphones to its smart home.
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As the market currently stands, there are an abundance of different smart home devices with their own standards and networks. Some of the major companies with first-party smart home standards include Google's Home and Nest services and Apple's Homekit protocol. There are also smaller, third-party smart home protocols that may or may not be compatible with the more
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