KNX and Matter: Position Paper

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2024-04-17 14:30:14

Joost Demarest and Casto Cañavate provide a high-level comparison of KNX and Matter, discuss how the two technologies can work together, and show why a KNX ecosystem is still the logical choice over the long term.

Anything that helps with the democratisation of smart home technology is a welcome move. For thirty plus years, KNX has been unique in offering a worldwide standard that ensures products from competing companies can work together seamlessly, reliably, and over the long term.

The official launch of Matter, an open-source connectivity standard for smart home and IoT devices, developed by Amazon, Apple and Google, amongst others, in late 2022, has rightly generated a lot of interest. Whilst Matter is geared towards a key principle of KNX; namely interoperability between products from competing companies, there are notable differences.

In this article we provide a high-level direct comparison, a quick comparison chart and our view on the position and market segmentation of KNX and Matter.