Smart home at CES 2025: AI and Matter will take center stage [Video]

Barely more than a year ago, the idea of an AI-powered smart security camera that could describe what it was seeing truly blew our minds. Now, it’s becoming par for the home security course. 

Just as it has in the general technology space, generative AI has begun to permeate the smart home and home security markets, from smart cams that can augment their video histories with self-generated captions to smart lights capable of creating lighting scenes using natural-language prompts. 

The trend of AI in the smart home will be everywhere at this year’s edition of CES, where many–if not most–smart home and home security announcements will come with a generous sprinkling of LLM-powered features. 

At the same time, another feature will be ubiquitous as far as smart home is concerned: Matter, the budding smart home standard that aims to unite the big smart ecosystems. That said, don’t expect any Matter …