Samsung and Google on Wednesday revealed a new collaboration that will make it simpler to set up Matter-enabled products on both Samsung SmartThings and Google Home platforms.
Samsung announced at the San Francisco Samsung Developer Conference that it would upgrade its SmartThings app in the coming months to allow customers to onboard Matter-enabled devices even if they are already set up in Google's ecosystem and vice versa.
"Matter" is an Internet of Things standard that’s being developed by companies like Apple, Google, Amazon and Samsung to ensure smart home devices from different companies work across ecosystems.
Last week, the Connectivity Standards Alliance, the consortium behind Matter, officially approved the first set of specifications so developers can apply for certification for their solutions.
Samsung claimed that in order to make compatible devices simple to identify and manage across several apps, it is utilising Matter's multi-admin capabilities.
Users will be able to import Matter-enabled devices that were set up under the Google ecosystem into the Samsung environment and vice versa after the company updates the SmartThings apps.
Users will then be able to operate these devices from either the Google Home app or the Samsung SmartThings app.
“As the largest Android developer, Samsung values its strong partnership with Google.
"Providing users with greater flexibility through this new multi-admin feature is a natural progression in our evolution as partners, allowing us to better support our massive existing and potential user base with both Samsung and Google products,” Jaeyeon Jung, Corporate VP and Head of SmartThings at Samsung said in a statement.
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