Samsung Electronics has announced a major milestone for the connected home industry, revealing that its Samsung SmartThings platform now supports Matter 1.5, making it the first smart home platform in the industry to enable Matter-compatible cameras. The update significantly expands SmartThings’ interoperability and positions Samsung at the forefront of smart home standardization and IoT integration. Matter is the global smart home standard developed to ensure seamless connectivity across brands, devices, and ecosystems.
SmartThings Expands Matter Device Support With Camera Integration
Beginning later this month, Samsung will roll out updates to SmartThings that extend Matter support beyond existing categories such as smart lights, door locks, switches, and sensors, adding smart home cameras to the ecosystem. With this expansion, SmartThings will offer the broadest Matter device support of any smart home platform currently available.
“Samsung aims to ensure that products and services built on different brands and protocols deliver a unified experience through SmartThings. We will continue to expand our support for industry standards, including Matter, and strengthen collaboration to deliver new and meaningful customer experiences,” said Jaeyeon Jung, Executive Vice President and Head of the SmartThings Team at Samsung Electronics.
Matter 1.5 Brings Enhanced Smart Home Security and Energy Management
Matter 1.5, announced by the Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA) in November, introduces native support for smart cameras, along with enhanced features for closure devices such as blinds, awnings, and garage doors. The update also includes improvements in energy management and automation.
Camera support is widely seen as a critical addition, as security cameras and video doorbells are core components of modern smart homes. Matter 1.5 enables a broad range of camera use cases, including:
- Indoor and outdoor security cameras
- Video doorbells
- Live video streaming
- Two-way audio communication
- Motion detection and event history
- Pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) controls
These capabilities strengthen smart home security, monitoring, and automation across compatible ecosystems.
Simplified Development and Greater Choice for Users
With SmartThings now supporting Matter camera standards, camera manufacturers can launch Matter-based cameras without building custom APIs, significantly reducing development complexity and accelerating time to market. Samsung is collaborating with leading IoT device makers such as Aqara, Eve, and XThings to develop Matter-compatible cameras. These products are expected to begin rolling out from March 2026.
SmartThings already supports a wide range of smart camera brands, including Arlo, Philips Hue, and Ring, using multiple protocols and connectivity methods. The addition of Matter cameras further expands user choice and simplifies device integration.
Building a Safer, More Intelligent Smart Home Ecosystem
Integrating cameras into SmartThings enables users to create personalized smart home experiences, such as monitoring their home remotely, checking on pets, enhancing home security, and setting up automated routines connected to smart doorbells and sensors.
Samsung Strengthens Leadership in Matter and Open Smart Home Platforms
Under its open-platform strategy, Samsung continues to expand global partnerships through its Works With SmartThings (WWST) certification program. SmartThings now supports over 4,700 device models from more than 390 partner brands worldwide. By rapidly adopting the Matter standard, Samsung has also helped bring 58 Matter device types into everyday consumer use.
With Matter 1.5 camera support, Samsung SmartThings reinforces its leadership in smart home interoperability, accelerating the shift toward a truly unified, secure, and intelligent connected home ecosystem.
