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 ...

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 seem to be everywhere, but all those gadgets need a way to talk to each other. You may have heard about Thread and wondered what it actually does. This post is here to help clear ...

It seems that Google is working on integrating Thread network support for Matter smart home ecosystems into Android 15. The option was recently discovered in an Android 15 beta. It will probably be ...

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 ...

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 ...