Matter is going to tackle healthcare next
by Victoria Song from The Verge - All Posts on (#68PRP)
The CSA announced it's putting together a Health and Wellness Working Group. | Image: Connectivity Standards Alliance The Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA), the group behind Matter, announced today that it's putting together a working group to build a standards and certification program for health and wellness technology - basically, a specialized Matter" that zeroes in on how Internet of Things devices can work together with wearables and other future forms of health tech.
Matter is a new smart home standard that allows IoT devices to communicate with each other regardless of which company made them. So long as you know a smart home device supports Matter, you know they'll play nicely together. The CSA's new Health and Wellness Working Group aims to apply the same concept to health and wellness tech. The ultimate goal is to help people age...