Matter and OpenADR team up to connect smart homes to the grid

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Matter and OpenADR have formed a partnership to enhance smart home connectivity with electricity grids. This collaboration is expected to streamline participation in demand-response programs, providing financial benefits to users through reduced utility costs.

Smart energy management just took a step closer to becoming simpler. This week, the organizations behind Matter, the smart-home interoperability standard, and the OpenADR protocol, which sends signals between the grid and the home, announced an agreement to work together. This should make it easier for connected appliances to participate in demand response programs (DR) and, hopefully, save you money. In demand response programs, a customer agrees to reduce or shift their electrical usage in exchange for utility bill credits or other incentives. The Connectivity Standards Alliance, which runs Matter, and the nonprofit OpenADR Alliance have … Read the full story at The Verge.