Samsung officially announced that they are tieing-up with Amazon to double up the efforts to set up and provide customers with increased choice and flexibility. Samsung is teaming up with Samsung to make it easy for customers to use Alexa or SmartThings, Samsung’s connected living platform, to set up Matter devices once and control them using both smart home systems.
With simplified onboarding, while creating a unified thread networking, Samsung and Amazon together make the process easy by just tapping into Matter’s multi-admin feature.
Customers will benefit from a streamlined setup for thread-based devices and a more reliable experience through wider coverage on a single thread network, by sharing thread network credentials. Customer is able to control their Matter devices with both Alexa and SmartThings without having to set up devices on each smart home system, those who opt-in.
Jaeyeon Jung, Corporate Vice President and Head of SmartThings, Mobile eXperience Business at Samsung Electronics, encountered.
“SmartThings customers have long enjoyed using Alexa’s voice capabilities to give them more ways to control the home. We are excited to work with Amazon to help simplify the smart home experience and provide more choice to our mutual customers on the types of devices and services they use in their homes.”
“This collaboration ultimately provides further interoperability and will help ensure the potential of Matter is fully realized.”
Conclusion…
Alexa APIs Matter supports new APIs and features for developers, there’s a lot to unpack which is built upon upcoming Alexa APIs. APIs enabling bi-directional multi-admin simple setup and thread credential sharing for Matter devices.
The design is to make complex technology fade into the background, allowing customers to effortlessly add Matter devices to their preferred services, realizing Matter’s promise of simplifying our customers’ smart home experience that is based on cloud-based APIs.
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