Zigbee vs. Matter over Thread: understanding IoT protocol performance in practice

T1Covered by 1 source · first reported by Raspberry Pi / Arduino / Adafruit at 16 Oct, 14:00 UTC

A paper posted to arXiv compares two low power mesh protocols used in smart home gear: Zigbee and Matter over Thread. Both run on 802.15.4 radios, both build mesh networks, and both show up in products from the same vendors. The question the paper takes on is how they actually behave once they are…