The purchase of a smart home product means checking the ecosystems with which it works by looking for the small badge “Works with Apple Home” or “Works with Google” on the package. Matter was supposed to get rid of it because if a product works with the material, it should work with all the large platforms of smart house. This has not yet occurred, and now we have another badge to seek: the badge of the question.
However, obtaining all these badges is about to become easier for manufacturers. The Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA), which executes the material, announced today that Apple, Google and Samsung will accept all its certification and test results for their “works with” programs: “
The alliance is delighted to share that Apple began to accept the results of the Alliance interoperation laboratory tests for material devices for work with Apple Home, and that Google and Samsung will do the same for their respective work with Google Home, and work with smartthing certifications later this year, highlighting the credibility and reliability of alliance test programs.
This means that the manufacturers of devices will not have to place their gadgets through the test programs separated from each platform to carry its “Works With” badge. Instead, once certified as a matter of matter, the Interop laboate can test it and validate it for participating work with the programs. The manufacturer can then show these results to other ecosystems and obtain these badges as well. This greatly facilitates the manufacturers of devices and brings us closer to a single badge to govern them all. (In particular, Amazon has not announced the participation for the work with Alexa.)
The CSA has also announced a new Fasttrack rectification program and a portfolio certification program that allows companies certifying several products more effectively. A complaint that I have frequently heard with intelligent house companies is that obtaining certified devices and recentified by the material when they bring a change or an update is a laborious and costly process that slows down their development work. The CSA claims that these two new programs simplify the two processes and make them less expensive and complicated.
Correction, January 9: An earlier version of this article has not specified that a device should be tested in the CSA interoperability laboratory After Gain certification to request work with the validation of badges.