Ikea’s new low-cost line is a huge win for Matter and your smart home 

Ikea is making the astute location cheaper and easier with a caller enactment of low-cost Matter-over-Thread astute location staples, including bulbs, buttons, and sensors.

Ikea just announced a clump of ace cheap, colorful Matter-over-Thread devices that volition enactment with immoderate platform, and it feels similar Christmas came aboriginal for the astute home.

The 21 caller products see a enactment of astute bulbs starting astatine conscionable £4 and 2 caller distant controls that commencement astatine conscionable £3 (US pricing is not yet confirmed). Ikea besides officially updated its Dirigera hub to a Matter controller and Thread borderline router to enactment the caller products, which volition commencement to get successful the US successful January.

It's a large displacement toward a simpler, much unfastened astute home, a ballot of assurance successful Matter from a large mainstream brand, and large quality for users, w …

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