IKEA will introduce over 20 new smart products, all built to work with Matter, the universal smart home standard. It’s the biggest step IKEA has taken to make smart home technology open, simple and affordable for many people.
After years of exploring and learning how smart products can improve everyday life, IKEA is now introducing its most open and easy-to-use range yet, shaped by real needs, daily routines and shifting habits in the home. The aim is not to add technology for its own sake, but to make products that adapt to people and their everyday challenges, while making homes more supportive and adaptable for everyday life.
Matter allows devices from different brands to work together seamlessly, offering greater flexibility across platforms and ecosystems. A compatible smart home hub, like DIRIGERA, is required to add Matter-enabled products to a home setup.
“Until now, smart home technology hasn’t been easy enough to use for most people, or affordable enough for many to consider. Bringing Matter to our products means we are taking a big step in the right direction, offering compatibility across brands, and lowering the threshold for people to get started. Our goal is to make the smart home easy to use, easy to understand, and within reach for the many,” says David Granath, Range Manager, IKEA of Sweden.
The new products are designed to offer high-quality, well-integrated solutions at prices that make smart technology more accessible and to work within any smart home system the customer prefers. With Matter support, the IKEA Home smart system will also open up to products from other brands.
A milestone on this journey is that DIRIGERA, the smart home hub from IKEA, is now a Matter Controller. It can manage Matter-enabled devices from other brands, and as a Matter Bridge, it ensures that existing IKEA smart products will also be compatible with platforms using the Matter standard. This makes IKEA Home Smart an even more open and flexible system.
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