Ikea Goes All In On Matter With New Smart Home Products

IKEA continues its push into nan smart location class with a caller statement of Matter-compatible products, group to motorboat successful January. The ready-to-assemble furnishings conglomerate has been testing nan waters pinch smart location products for a while now, but this is its largest merchandise successful nan abstraction yet.

Beyond stating consumers could expect 20 caller products moving nan unfastened root Matter standard, zero specifics were provided connected which items will motorboat adjacent year. "Bringing Matter to our products intends we are taking a large measurement successful nan correct direction, offering compatibility crossed brands, and lowering nan period for group to get started," said David Granath, scope head astatine IKEA.

In nan meantime, IKEA is teasing 2 caller Bluetooth speakers that will motorboat later this year. An affordable speaker designed to look for illustration an aged power will motorboat successful July nether nan sanction NATTBAD, and a array speaker named BLOMPRAKT pinch atmospheric lighting is coming successful October.

Technical specifications are sparse, but nan announcement describes support for features for illustration multi-speaker setup and Spotify Tap. This would people nan first preamble of caller speakers from IKEA since nan institution ended its business pinch Sonos earlier this summer.

IKEA says much updates astir nan caller scope of smart location products will travel up of nan January launch.

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