Dwelling equipment producer Bosch is exhibiting off its first Matter-enabled equipment on the present flooring at CES this week. The 100 Series French Door Bottom Mount Refrigerator launched in November and ought to be available for purchase within the US this spring.
The fridge retails for $2,500 and has a chip on board that helps Matter. A firmware replace to the good dwelling normal will come this summer season, says Eelco Lammertink of BSH, which owns Bosch, Siemens, Thermador, and Gaggenau.
The 100 collection is the sister product to the Matter-enabled Siemens XXL fridge I spotted at IFA in Berlin final November. That in-built mannequin will come to the European market on an analogous timeline. Lammertink tells me BSH plans to deliver Matter to all of its home equipment throughout its Bosch, Siemens, and Thermador strains, beginning with fridges this yr, yet another equipment class subsequent yr, and three in 2026.
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The 100 Collection will assist Matter 1.3, permitting you to manage the temperature remotely and obtain notifications from the fridge in your good dwelling platform of alternative. That manner, a sensible speaker can announce when the door has been left open.
Whereas many good fridges have already got these options, with Matter, the connection between the equipment and the ecosystem turns into native — making it quicker and safer. At the moment, solely Samsung SmartThings and Dwelling Assistant assist home equipment in Matter, however Lammertink tells me that Amazon will assist them this yr. There isn’t a phrase on Google Dwelling or Apple Dwelling but.
Lammertink says the plan is to deliver power reporting and power administration capabilities to the fridge. This might allow it to be a part of a Matter-enabled complete dwelling power administration system. Sadly, he stated they gained’t be updating present home equipment to Matter (dangerous information for my Thermador vary and dishwasher.) “The challenges are too huge,” he stated. “We simply can’t danger bricking your fridge.”
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