• thehatfox@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    That’s Thread. Matter is an application layer standard, which currently supports running over WiFi, Ethernet or Thread.

    Matter could run over new wireless systems in the future.

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      1 day ago

      WiFi is already pretty universal in smart automation systems, Matter doesn’t matter much when the underlying protocol is Wifi. And since 99% of Matter devices are WiFi…

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      12 days ago

      Besides that, Thread is pretty low-bandwidth and low-noise. It’s designed to sip battery life from devices.

      2.4Ghz just allows it to be built into tons of devices without an extra chip. Every Google Hub, Alexa, or Apple hub supports it.