Important news regarding the Smart Home: a new update has been announced for Matterwhich thus arrives at the version 1.4.2.
Before continuing, remember that it is a universal standard for the intelligent home, supported by giants of the caliber of Apple, Google, Amazon and Samsung and designed as a solution that can make users easier to connect various devices made by different companies.
The news of the 1.4.2 version of Matter
According to what has been made known by the Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA), this version aims to consolidate the foundations of Matter, introducing specific changes relating to safety, communication between devices and configuration processes, all with the guarantee of rear measures (existing devices will also be included).
If until now most Matter devices needed Bluetooth Low Energy to manage the initial configuration, the situation now changes with the support of the option Wi-Fi onlywhich completely eliminates Bluetooth and should guarantee device producers a reduction in costs.
And again, with Matter 1.4.2 improves the level of safetyas the controllers can verify that the “administrators” who manage the devices actually come from the declared supplier (only reliable ones can change sensitive settings, thus decreasing the risk of intrusions).
Among the other novelties of this version of Matter are the improvement of the coordination between the devices (with a faster activation and the support of special effects, such as the gradual dissolution of the light), the reduction of “redundant” communications between the devices of the network (with a consequent reduction in energy consumption) and the possibility for devices to communicate to the controllers when they change their skills (so as to allow users to obtain new features without having to have to have to have to have to have to have to obtain them. reassociate).
It is, overall, a minor update with which the CSA goes to make the experience of using this standard more pleasant.
