Overview#

Matter Standard, formerly Project Connected Home over IP (CHIP), is a Proposed Standard, Royalty-free Home Automation connectivity standard.
Matter Standard is a stupid name for anything. Matter is a well known noun.
Matter Standard is not "Free". To use the Matter Standard icon or name you must belong to the Connectivity Standards Alliance which is prohibitively expensive for an individual.

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]

Matter Standard is an Application Layer protocol and Data model and does not specify the underlying Transport Layers.

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