Announced on December 18th, 2019, Matter Standard aims to reduce fragmentation across different vendors, and achieve interoperability among smart home devices and Internet of Things (IoT) platforms from different providers.
The project group was launched and introduced by Amazon, Apple, Google,[2][3] Comcast and the Zigbee Alliance, now Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA). Subsequent members include IKEA, Huawei, Schneider, among others.[4][5] Matter-compatible products and software updates for existing products are expected to be released in 2022.[6] Although the Matter code repository is open-source under the Apache license, the Matter specification is licensed by CSA.[7]