Matter - Development Software

At Nordic Semiconductor, we are committed to driving innovation in low-power wireless solutions, and Matter represents an exciting leap forward for smart home connectivity. Matter is an open-source, royalty-free standard developed by the Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA), designed to enable seamless interoperability between IoT devices from different manufacturers.

As a leader in Bluetooth® Low Energy (LE), Thread, and Wi-Fi, Nordic provides Matter-ready solutions that help developers create secure, low-power, and future-proof smart home products. Our nRF52840 and nRF5340 SoCs, combined with our nRF Connect SDK, offer a robust platform for building Matter-compliant devices using Thread and Bluetooth LE. Additionally, our nRF7002 Wi-Fi companion IC extends Matter support to Wi-Fi-based applications.

With Nordic’s energy-efficient hardware and developer-friendly software tools, bringing Matter-certified products to market has never been easier. Whether you're building smart lighting, door locks, sensors, or other home automation devices, Nordic's proven, scalable, and secure wireless solutions ensure a smooth path to Matter certification.

We enable your Matter projects

Up to date Matter integration

Our nRF Connect SDK has Matter support fully integrated, and our solution is ready for prototyping. We will continue to implement the newest updates with every release. To learn more, have a look at our user guide about Matter.

Matter Samples

We have sample programs for weather stations, light bulbs, light switches, and door locks included in our nRF Connect SDK. We provide a comprehensive user guide about configuring a Matter development environment. The guide explains how to run a Matter accessory on a Nordic Development Kit. It shows what types of Matter controllers to use and how to set them up together with a Thread Border router.

diagram showing a Matter test setup. A Matter controller running on a pc, connected to a matter accessory (Thingy:53) and to a Wi-Fi Access Point. The Wi-Fi Access point ic connected to a Thread Border Router. Both the Matter accessory and the Border router can communicate with the Thread network Matter protocol, Matter development, Developing for Matter

These examples show the usage of Matter with our nRF connect SDK. The weather station example lets you remotely gather different kinds of data. It collects temperature, air pressure, and relative humidity, using the device sensors. The resulting device works as a Matter accessory device. It can pair and be remotely controlled over a Matter network built on top of a low-power, 802.15.4 Thread network. Use these samples as references to create your own devices

nRF Connect SDK

nRF Connect SDK is a common software development kit for Bluetooth Low Energy, Wi-Fi, cellular IoT, Bluetooth mesh, Thread, Zigbee and Matter. It supports all our nRF52, nRF53, nRF70 and nRF91 Series wireless devices.

nRF Connect for VS Code

nRF Connect for VS Code lets you develop, build, and debug applications based on the nRF Connect SDK using the VS Code Integrated Development Environment (IDE).