Apple Backed 'Matter' Smart Home Standard Delayed Until Fall

The 'Matter' smart home standard backed by Apple, Amazon, and Google has been delayed until fall.

The delay was announced b y Connectivity Standards Alliance today...

Returning from CES 2022, our members and team looked at what’s left to do to deliver on Matter’s promise of not just a robust specification and SDK, but also a vibrant ecosystem of devices. To further improve code quality and stability and accommodate the breadth of Matter devices and platforms, we’re extending our testing and validation events. While this will have the effect of pushing the public launch of Matter 1.0 by a few months, we’ll be launching with a larger pipeline of Matter-enabled devices, and a robust supply chain of development platforms for more devices to come. Even with this, there’s a lot of good news and reason to be confident in our plans to get Matter done and done right.


Developers of Matter are now largely focused on improving code quality, stability, and clean-up. Efforts have been extended to allow for the build and verification of more than 16 platforms. A 9th test event will added this spring, followed by a Matter Specification Validation Event (SVE), now planned for summer.

The alliance expects to see over 130 devices at the validation event, representing 15 device and sensor types from more than 50 companies.

Unlike regular test events, SVEs produce formal compliance results and are crucial to certification of these first products, validating the final specification, and readying our test labs for the start of our formal certification program.

Version 0.9 of the Matter specification will be available mid-year and the launch of Matter 1.0 is expected in the fall. After that, the formal certification program will be open to all companies wanting to certify Matter devices.


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