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Thread count: Ikea is stitching together a smarter home

A white hub on a table.

Ikea is powering up its Dirigera smart home hub, adding Matter controller functionality and activating its Thread radio to support its new line of smart home products.

Ikea is relaunching its smart home line in a move that will make its low-cost products work with other brands, with or without Ikea’s own hub. Starting in January, the Swedish furniture giant will release more than 20 new Matter-over-Thread smart lights, sensors, and remotes with “more new product types and form factors to come,” David Granath of Ikea of Sweden, tells The Verge in an exclusive interview.

Ikea is also rebooting its audio offerings as it seeks to fill the Sonos Symfonisk-shaped hole on its shelves. The first two models in the new line of inexpensive, easy-to-use Bluetooth speakers for the home are the $50 retro-style Nattbad

Read the full story at The Verge.

Original Source: https://www.theverge.com/smart-home/701697/ikea-matter-thread-new-products-new-smart-home-strategy

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