IKEA broadcasts new Matter-compatible good house merchandise

IKEA has formally introduced its vary of Matter-compatible good house merchandise. The Swedish furnishings retailer is releasing 21 new objects underneath the tentpoles of lighting, sensors and management. IKEA teased these releases again in July.

A part of the roll out will embody updates to present classes to be able to work with Matter, an open supply good house customary. “We’re upgrading our most-appreciated merchandise whereas additionally including new ones to resolve much more on a regular basis challenges,” Stjepan Begic, product developer at IKEA. “Our focus has been on maintaining issues easy from setup to day by day use, so it’s simple for individuals to start out, use and develop a sensible house.”

As for the merchandise themselves, 11 come as a part of the KAJPLATS good bulb vary. They are going to have a mixture of sizes and shapes, together with dimming performance. Then there’s the 5 good sensors., beginning with an indoor and outside movement sensor referred to as MYGGSPRAY, which routinely activates lights. Equally, there’s MYGGBETT, which sends a notification when a door or window will get opened or closed.

On the extra technical security aspect are sensors like TIMMERFLOTTE, which screens temerature and humidity. Then there’s ALPSTUGA, an air high quality sensor and KLIPPBOK, a water leakage sensor.

Ending the lineup is a variety of distant controls and one good plug, GRILLPLATS, which works with common lamps and home equipment to show them on and off, together with monitoring power use. Then there’s the 4 BILRESA merchandise, beginning with a twin button distant management that may flip lights on and off, modify the brightness, and create a preset scene. In the meantime, the distant management with a scroll wheel does related capabilities, together with dimming. Two kits of three controls every can be found for every sort.

IKEA would not embody actual pricing or launch dates, noting that it would fluctuate market to market. In its July teaser, the corporate stated these merchandise can be out there come January subsequent 12 months.

The brand new merchandise will additional bolster IKEA’s good house lineup, which regularly alternates between cold and hot. For example, the corporate’s DIRIGERA smart hub debuted way back to 2022, however the Swedish furnishing big and Sonos dissolved their partnership earlier this 12 months, although many customers (including us) discovered them to be an reasonably priced various to extra dear Sonos-branded choices.

Replace Nov. 7 2025, 3:56PM ET: Added extra context, together with hyperlinks to protection of IKEA’s earlier forays into the good house market.