The Matter smart home standard is becoming an integral part of smart home connectivity due to the support of Apple, Amazon, Google, Samsung SmartThings, and other smart home platform manufacturers.  The Connectivity Standards Alliance has just released version 1.4 of the Matter standard.  This article looks at the new device types included in the standard as well as other enhancements that have been made.  

You can find the article here:

https://restechtoday.com/matter-version-1-4-features-several-significant-improvements/

For these interested in even earlier content that I wrote, you can find it all here though older content has formatting issues due to a transfer from blogspot to wordpress.

https://topicsinhomeautomation.wordpress.com/

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