Taiwanese smart-home company Ductech has selected WiseKey subsidiary Sealsq to provide Matter-trusted device attestation certificates for its motorised window curtains that can be controlled via a smartphone or remote control.

Swiss firm WiseKey specialises in cyber security, digital identity and IoT. Its Sealsq subsidiary focuses on semiconductors and PKI.

“Sealsq’s Ines platform is equipped with ready-to-use Matter-trusted certificates to simply, securely and seamlessly connect devices,” said Neo Liu, general manager at Ductech. “We are excited to be cooperating with Sealsq to create our first Matter-trusted product for our customers.”

David Khalifa, vice president at WiseKey, added: “We are thrilled to support Ductech to release new smart home products based on Matter. With Matter standard, device makers need to start preparing devices to be Matter-trusted and receive Matter approval. Additionally, compliance with Matter eases the burden for manufacturers to properly secure connected IoT devices and at the same time increase functionality and performance. We are quickly bringing Matter-enabled products to the market, and we look forward to securely connect the entire smart home ecosystem.”

The growing adoption of Matter for the smart home industry should improve interoperability between devices and security-by-design in the smart home industry, creating a more efficient and safer experience for consumers. This is in alignment with Sealsq’s mission to contribute in building a safer connected world.

Matter participants could gain the following benefits by partnering with Sealsq: reducing time to market in achieving Matter compliance; reducing costs of technology, maintenance, staffing and ongoing compliance; experiencing more flexible deployment options, including on-premises, hosted or batch issuance; simplifying management of device attestation certificates and product attestation intermediates through the Ines CMS platform for IoT; and gaining efficiency using a scalable platform to sign and secure device updates.

Matter, an industry-led effort of the CSA, brings together manufacturers and service providers to achieve secure, reliable and seamless use of smart home devices. Matter enables IP-based networking and communication across smart home devices, mobile applications and smart home ecosystems. Matter devices offer consumers assurances of secure use through a consortium-led standard for authenticating device identity that only allows Matter-certified devices to connect to the network.

Ductech is a Taiwanese company dedicated to smart buildings and smart homes. Since its establishment in 2017, it has developed a number of Apple HomeKit products.

Sealsq, a subsidiary of WiseKey, focuses on developing and selling semiconductors, PKI and post-quantum technology hardware and software.