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From smart homes to folding phones, here’s what we expect to see at the IFA trade show next week.

The article discusses expectations for smart home announcements at the upcoming IFA tech show in Berlin. While companies may unveil new smart speakers, cameras and robot vacuums, the smart home remains fragmented as the Matter interoperability standard has yet to fully deliver on integrating devices. The author argues the industry needs to provide more utility than novelty by allowing different smart devices to work together seamlessly. Examples mentioned include lights notifying users of doorbell activity or a robot vacuum taking on multiple household chores autonomously. Overall, the smart home needs solutions that are essential rather than just novel if consumers are to see the value beyond the initial cool factor.

  • PupBiru
    9•10 months ago

    HTTPS is heavy when you’re talking about the extreme low power, bandwidth, and compute devices matter is intending to support

    its also not a broadcast protocol - matter intends to connect many devices to many devices

    those are off the top of my head; i’m sure there are more. HTTP is great, but new/alternate network protocols aren’t inherently bad: especially when you’re operating in a very constrained/niche environment

    • @CanadaPlus
      1•10 months ago

      Yeah, I’m going to reserve judgement, but anything to do with IoT does make me suspicious off the bat.

      its also not a broadcast protocol - matter intends to connect many devices to many devices

      Does it? It sounded like it was a server-client model in the blog post and a skim of the example, with devices as clients and whatever application as a server.