Ikea’s New Smart Home Collection Is Entirely Matter-compatible

The postulation includes a caller two-button wireless distant that tin beryllium utilized to power much than conscionable lights. | Image: Ikea

Ikea announced 21 caller Matter-over-Thread devices that tin “connect pinch a wider scope of devices and platforms, making it easier for customers to build a smart location crossed different brands.” The postulation includes some wholly caller products and updates to existing offerings introducing caller functionality and features.

The caller postulation was teased by Ikea’s David Granath during our exclusive interview earlier this year, and nan institution primitively promised support for nan Matter smart location modular erstwhile it announced its Dirigera hub successful May 2022. Although nan hub’s Matter support ended up being delayed for respective years, it was finally introduced successful beta successful March 2024. Several months later, Ikea updated its smart hub truthful each users could use it arsenic a bridge betwixt nan company’s Zigbee-based smart location devices and different Matter-enabled systems.

Earlier this year, Ikea updated its Dirigera hub to go a Matter controller, allowing Matter devices from different companies to beryllium added and controlled utilizing Ikea’s Home Smart app. The institution says it’s expecting its caller Matter-compatible smart location postulation to show up successful stores arsenic early arsenic this period successful immoderate countries. For nan US, nan smart remotes and sensors will beryllium disposable successful Ikea stores starting successful January 2026, while nan smart bulbs will debut successful April 2026. Ahead of that Ikea is already updating its app and hub this week to make nan Matter controller functionality officially disposable to each users.

Smart bulbs person been 1 of Ikea’s astir celebrated smart location products, and its caller Kajplats postulation features a simplified lineup, making it easier for customers to differentiate what’s available. There are 11 variations successful nan caller Kajplats line, including 60mm E27/E26 bulbs pinch a modular globe shape, compact 45mm P45 E17/E14/E12 bulbs, and GU10 directional spotlight bulbs that are each disposable successful dimmable achromatic spectrum aliases afloat color-changing versions.

Ikea will besides beryllium offering clear ornamental bulbs successful 3 sizes arsenic ample arsenic 95mm, but they’re constricted to nan achromatic spectrum. Despite nan institution moving distant from Zigbee for its smart location products successful favour of Matter-over-Thread, nan caller bulbs will still beryllium compatible pinch Ikea’s older wireless remotes and tin beryllium utilized without its smart location app aliases Dirigera hub for customers preferring a simpler setup.

As rumored earlier this year, Ikea is introducing 2 caller Matter-compatible wireless remotes that are nary longer designed for circumstantial products and functions. The Bilresa distant will beryllium disposable successful a streamlined two-button type and 1 pinch a scroll wheel, and while some tin beryllium utilized to move connected lights and set their brightness, they’re designed to beryllium generic and compatible pinch different merchandise types.

The scroll instrumentality distant tin besides power aggregate groups, switchable utilizing a fastener connected nan bottom. You tin usage nan scroll instrumentality to set nan measurement connected a smart speaker, for example, and past move to controlling nan colour of your lights. Ikea will beryllium trading some versions of nan distant individually aliases successful red, green, and beige three-packs truthful you tin differentiate their functionality and which devices they power based connected their color.

The remotes besides activity pinch Ikea’s caller Grillplats smart plug that lets you remotely move connected lamps and smaller appliances while besides search their power usage.

Rounding retired Ikea’s caller smart location postulation are 5 caller smart sensors. Myggspray is an indoor / outdoor mobility sensor that tin trigger lights. Myggbett is simply a doorway / model sensor that tin activate lights aliases nonstop notifications erstwhile they’re opened aliases closed. And Klippbok is simply a h2o sensor mini capable to fresh nether appliances that tin alert you to leaks done notifications and a built-in audible siren of its own.

The puck-shaped Timmerflotte is simply a somesthesia and humidity sensor that cycles done some measurements pinch a fastener property utilizing a pixelated LED show connected top. It tin thief guarantee your home’s target somesthesia is reached moreover successful rooms that whitethorn beryllium located connected different level than wherever your smart thermostat is installed. Lastly, nan Alpstuga whitethorn look for illustration a desktop clock, but successful summation to displaying nan clip it’s besides Ikea’s first aerial value sensor that tin measurement CO2 arsenic good arsenic nan level of airborne PM2.5 particles successful your home, temperature, and humidity. It’s designed to activity pinch Ikea’s existing aerial purifiers, expanding nan scope of their built-in aerial value sensors to different areas of your home.

Ikea hasn’t revealed US pricing yet, but it did stock pricing specifications for nan UK. The caller Kajplats will scope successful value from £4 to £9 (around $5.21 to $11.73) while nan dual fastener distant will beryllium £3, and nan scroll instrumentality distant will beryllium £4. The Klippbok, Myggbett, and Myggspray sensors will each beryllium £7, and nan Timmerflotte somesthesia / humidity sensor will beryllium £5. The astir costly instrumentality successful nan caller postulation will beryllium nan £25 Alpstuga aerial value sensor.