{"id":816392,"date":"2025-01-01T22:11:51","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T04:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/01\/smart-home-at-ces-2025-ai-and-matter-will-take-center-stage\/"},"modified":"2025-01-01T22:11:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T04:11:51","slug":"smart-home-at-ces-2025-ai-and-matter-will-take-center-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/01\/smart-home-at-ces-2025-ai-and-matter-will-take-center-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart home at CES 2025: AI and Matter will take center stage"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Barely more than a year ago, the idea of an AI-powered smart security camera that could describe what it was seeing<\/a> truly blew our minds. Now, it\u2019s becoming par for the home security course.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Just as it has in the general technology space, generative AI has begun to permeate the smart home and home security markets, from smart cams that can augment their video histories with self-generated captions to smart lights capable of creating lighting scenes using natural-language prompts.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The trend of AI in the smart home will be everywhere at this year\u2019s edition of CES, where many\u2013if not most\u2013smart home and home security announcements will come with a generous sprinkling of LLM-powered features.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At the same time, another feature will be ubiquitous as far as smart home is concerned: Matter, the budding smart home standard that aims to unite the big smart ecosystems. That said, don\u2019t expect any Matter security camera announcements at CES next month; we\u2019ll explain why in a moment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Gen AI, meet smart home\u00a0<\/h2>\n
CES has become an increasingly big deal for smart home and home security (rivaled only by IFA, in Berlin), but at CES 2025, gen AI will be sharing\u2014if not hogging\u2014the spotlight.\u00a0<\/p>\n
To get an idea of the smart home-plus-AI announcements we might see at CES, just look at what we\u2019ve already seen from the likes of Amazon\u2019s Ring and Google\u2019s Nest brands.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Earlier this year, Ring rolled out Smart Video Search<\/a>, a feature that leverages AI-powered \u201cVisual Language Modeling\u201d to match captured video events with natural language search queries. In the real world, that means being able to find a video clip using by searching on, say, \u201cracoon in the backyard last night.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Google is doing something similar with its Nest cameras<\/a>, which can now (provided you\u2019re in the Google Home preview program) generate searchable text descriptions for saved videos, such as \u201cthe dog is digging in the garden\u201d or \u201cpackage with ballons.\u201d Tap a video, and you\u2019ll get an even more detailed description, courtesy of Google\u2019s Gemini AI.\u00a0<\/p>\n
All this reminds us the Psync Camera Genie S<\/a>, an AI-powered security cam unveiled last November that could write\u2014or try to write, anyway\u2014detailed descriptions of what it was seeing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That was a unique feature a mere 13 months ago, albeit one that we called \u201cmore amusing than truly useful.\u201d But today, AI-powered security cams that can describe what they\u2019re seeing aren\u2019t the novelty they used to be, and I\u2019d be surprised if we didn\u2019t see more of the same at CES this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Generative AI will continue to make its way into other smart home categories in Vegas. Think smart home systems that can generate their own automations based on your natural-language prompts (again, Google has already started down that path), or smart lights that can create lighting scenes from a short string of words (\u201ca golden California sunset during the summer\u201d).\u00a0<\/p>\n
Launched two years ago with the promise of simplifying the thicket of competing smart home standards, Matter was initially anything but simple.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Positioned as the glue that would allow smart devices to work seamlessly with Alexa, Apple Home, Google Home, Samsung SmartThings, and other big smart home platforms, Matter arrived in fairly rough shape, with support for only a subset of device categories and a glitchy onboarding process.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Two years later, Matter has become proficient in many more device types<\/a>, and its most recent update added a new multi-admin process that will\u2014eventually\u2014make it easier to add Matter devices to multiple smart home platforms at once.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Of course, it\u2019s incumbent on device manufacturers to implement Matter\u2019s new features in their products, so the days of Matter nirvana are still off in the distance.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Also, remember what I mentioned earlier about Matter and security cameras? For now, security cams aren\u2019t included in the Matter specification (that could change as early as this year), so while we may see plenty of AI-powered cameras at CES 2025, the same won\u2019t be true of Matter-enabled cams. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Still, the Matter logo will be a ubiquitous presence on the show floor in Las Vegas, and by CES 2026, security cameras likely will no longer be an exception.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Ben has been writing about technology and consumer electronics for more than 20 years. A PCWorld contributor since 2014, Ben joined TechHive in 2019, where he has covered everything from smart speakers and soundbars to smart lights and security cameras. Ben’s articles have also appeared in PC Magazine, TIME, Wired, CNET, Men’s Fitness, Mobile Magazine, and more. Ben holds a master’s degree in English literature.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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