In what may turn out to be an industry-defining step to unleash fresh innovation that inevitably extends beyond the consumer market, the Connectivity Standards Alliance today officially launched the Matter standard, following the introduction of final specifications in October.
Speaking at the Matter launch event in Amsterdam, Ben Wood, chief analyst at CCS Insight, explained why the introduction may become as important a moment to the future Industry of Things (IoT) as the formation of Bluetooth was elsewhere in tech.