Google's Nest Labs is participating in a project to build a networking standard that could replace or supplement WiFi as billions of devices come online. Seven companies founded Thread and launched ...

When Matter and Thread were first released, they were supposed to end the Protocol Wars. However, it took years to resolve its fundamental boundary constraints, relying on late software updates to ...

SmartThings, which is Samsung Electronics's platform for connected living, has announced support for two-way Thread network unification across smart home ecosystems. This new feature allows ...

I’m completely stumped. After a year and a half of pretty close to rock solid performance of my Matter over Thread network the entire thing took a stumble Saturday after updating HA to the current ...

Smart home devices that connect over Thread should have a much more stable network thanks to Thread 1.4 support in tvOS 26. Thread is an IP-based wireless protocol that connects primarily smart home ...

The Thread Group will be fixing one of the largest adoption issues of Matter as a smart home standard, by making Thread border routers work nicely as one larger network. One of the problems with using ...

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. If you're a smart home user or on the path to becoming one, you've probably heard the buzzwords of Thread, Zigbee, and Matter thrown around by ...

The Matter and Thread standards are supposed to ensure that a huge range of smart home devices can work seamlessly together, mirroring the benefits offered by HomeKit compatibility. But this isn’t the ...

When Apple discontinued its own AirPort series of routers in April, it hinted that it viewed mesh networking as Wi-Fi's next evolution by promoting Linksys' Velop mesh routers in its stores. Now the ...