Introduction to Matter: A Technical Overview (2026 Update)
Matter has evolved from a promising standard to production reality, with hundreds of certified products in the market and over 500 companies in the Connectivity Standards Alliance backing its development. This unified smart home protocol eliminates the fragmentation that previously forced developers to build separate implementations for Amazon Alexa, Apple Home, and Google Home. Matter uses IPv6 across Wi-Fi, Thread, and Ethernet, providing a common application layer and data model that ensures real interoperability. As of 2026, Matter 1.5 includes 80+ device types spanning lighting, security, energy management, and more, with real-world deployment experience informing ongoing development.
This webinar will guide you through the technical foundations of Matter and show you how to build production devices. Learn how Matter's data model works—understanding Nodes, Endpoints, Clusters, and the Interaction Model—and discover when to choose Thread versus Wi-Fi for your application. We'll walk through real implementation examples, including a door lock data model breakdown, and demonstrate how Nordic's nRF54L Series and nRF Connect SDK enable everything from coin-cell powered sensors to complex Matter applications with industry-leading power efficiency and the smallest memory footprint on the market.
An extended Q&A session with additional insights is included in this edited recording.
0:00 Introduction
01:05 The smart home Market before Matter
04:27 Matter How it started
06:52 Matter Benefits
09:10 Protocol Overview
11:11 Roles
13:25 Device date Model
15:19 Interaction Model16:20 Network Technologies
20:45 Device Types
23:18 Nordic and Matter
27:30 the nRF54L Series: Best SoCs for Matter
28:37 Choosing the right SoC
29:52 Developer Tools for Matter
31:47 Demo: Thread in Mobile and Aliro
33:42 Q&A
This is a recording of one of two live sessions held on January 31st, 2026, with the Q&A part of both sessions appended at the end. The slides from the webinar can be downloaded here: https://view-su3.highspot.com/viewer/58d277d3f3a770492af6ca19b877b0f6
Introduction to Matter: A Technical Overview (2026 Update)
29 January 2026
9:00 CEST
Duration:
00:44:34
Matter has evolved from a promising standard to production reality, with hundreds of certified products in the market and over 500 companies in the Connectivity Standards Alliance backing its development. This unified smart home protocol eliminates the fragmentation that previously forced developers to build separate implementations for Amazon Alexa, Apple Home, and Google Home. Matter uses IPv6 across Wi-Fi, Thread, and Ethernet, providing a common application layer and data model that ensures real interoperability. As of 2026, Matter 1.5 includes 80+ device types spanning lighting, security, energy management, and more, with real-world deployment experience informing ongoing development.
This webinar will guide you through the technical foundations of Matter and show you how to build production devices. Learn how Matter's data model works—understanding Nodes, Endpoints, Clusters, and the Interaction Model—and discover when to choose Thread versus Wi-Fi for your application. We'll walk through real implementation examples, including a door lock data model breakdown, and demonstrate how Nordic's nRF54L Series and nRF Connect SDK enable everything from coin-cell powered sensors to complex Matter applications with industry-leading power efficiency and the smallest memory footprint on the market.
An extended Q&A session with additional insights is included in this edited recording.
0:00 Introduction
01:05 The smart home Market before Matter
04:27 Matter How it started
06:52 Matter Benefits
09:10 Protocol Overview
11:11 Roles
13:25 Device date Model
15:19 Interaction Model16:20 Network Technologies
20:45 Device Types
23:18 Nordic and Matter
27:30 the nRF54L Series: Best SoCs for Matter
28:37 Choosing the right SoC
29:52 Developer Tools for Matter
31:47 Demo: Thread in Mobile and Aliro
33:42 Q&A
This is a recording of one of two live sessions held on January 31st, 2026, with the Q&A part of both sessions appended at the end. The slides from the webinar can be downloaded here: https://view-su3.highspot.com/viewer/58d277d3f3a770492af6ca19b877b0f6