• Paul Thurrott
• Nov 09, 2025
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This week, IKEA announced over 20 new affordable Matter-compatible smart home devices. And unlike AI, this is an update that could actually make smart home technology viable for mainstream audiences.

“Until now, smart home technology hasn’t been easy enough to use for most people, or affordable enough for many to consider,” IKEA range manager David Granath says. “This launch brings us closer to helping everyone feel ready and confident to get started.”

IKEA has been pushing smart home products for years, most notably through a partnership with Sonos that ended quietly this past May, and while recent initiatives seemed promising, the complexity of this technology combined with competing smart home standards and ecosystems undermined the company and its customers.

This time is different.

Where IKEA had previously adopted Zigbee for inter-device communication, all its new products fully support the latest Matter standard, and IKEA is updating some existing products with this support as well. So these products will interoperate “with a wider range of devices and platforms, making it easier for customers to build a smart home across different brands,” IKEA notes. In other words, they will work with Apple Home, Google Home, Amazon Alexa, and other major smart home ecosystems.

As important, the new IKEA smart home devices are all inexpensive and simple to use. The firm has only revealed UK pricing so far, but the U.S. equivalents range from about $5 to $12 per device. And availability will be worldwide. So this could revolutionize the market for smart home devices.

IKEA announced a new line of DIRIGERA smart home hubs that can act as Matter controllers, a Matter bridge for bringing previous generation IKEA smart home products into the Matter era, the KAPLATS smart light bulb range with 11 variations and both color and white options, the MYGGSPRAY motion sensors for indoor or outdoor use, the MYGGBETT door/window sensor, the TIMMERFLOTTE temperature and humidity sensor, the ALPSTUGA air quality sensor with CO2, temperature, and humidity measurements and a time display, the KLIPPBOK water leak sensor with sound alerts, a BILRESA remote control with dual buttons, a BILRESA remote control with scroll wheel for lighting, two BILRESA Remote Control Kits in three colors (green, red and beige), and the GRILLPLATS smart plug for turning ordinary lamps or smaller appliances into smart products and tracking energy use.

This is very exciting, and the only real question is when: IKEA says that availability and pricing will vary by market, but we should see the first of these devices appear by the end of 2025.