Introducing the new X-CUBE-MATTER software package!
Channel: STMicroelectronics
Date: 02/04/2024

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Transcript:
Smart home products are booming! More and more consumers want a connected home.

Whether to save energy, improve their quality of life, increase their household monitoring capabilities, or simply because they can be really fun, home automation is here to stay. And to make the creation of smart home products a lot easier, the industry launched Matter.

For those unfamiliar with it, Matter is the newest protocol that aims to unite all home automation and other smart devices. Matter is supported by all major players like Apple, Amazon, Google, and ST, which is also a promoter member of the CSA, the consortium behind Matter. Basically, Matter aims to promote interoperability and robustness.

It creates a world where consumers can buy the smart home product they want without worrying about compatibility with their existing system. But Matter adoption has faced challenges. Some companies complain that certification costs are high.

Others must deal with long development cycles, and a flourishing protocol like Matter must have a lot of support before it can be popular.

That’s why we are releasing today X-CUBE-MATTER, the first software package for microcontrollers that comes with a pre-certified network stack and application cluster. In most cases, receiving a Matter certification takes about two to three months.

However, companies can cut down this certification process to one month
by using our pre-certified code. It also helps save costs and reduces the chances of something going wrong.
And here’s another thing.

Usually, implementing all the security features mandated by the Matter certification can take up months of development. Engineers have to design provisioning operations, store the security certificates properly, and then create a system to call them when needed without creating vulnerabilities in the process.

Seeing this, ST engineers decided to offer an implementation example and work with CommScope, a member of the ST Partner Program, to manage certificates using their cloud infrastructure. In a nutshell, the ST software package can really help save time.

The new X-CUBE-MATTER software package also has pre-certified applications for smart lighting and window covering. And we are announcing today that we will release at least two updates to X-CUBE-MATTER per year, each offering new applications. Over time, the software package will also support new microcontrollers
and new optimizations to the Matter stack.

Check out the ST blog at blog.st.com to learn more about these applications and how you can get started. We can't wait to see what Matter applications you come up with.