Can Matter protocol replace ZigBee protocol wireless communication technology?

[Jeromemark (jeromemark)]

ZigBee has been in existence for nearly 20 years, and it is already very 
mature in technology. It is one-third of the world in the field of 
short-distance wireless communication with Bluetooth wireless technology 
and WIFI wireless technology. However, the rising stars of the 
short-distance communication protocol are emerging one after another, 
and various rumors about the elimination of ZigBee are constantly 
spreading. So is it possible for ZigBee to be eliminated?

The source of the "Matter protocol" was described before. The Matter 
protocol was derived from the ZCL of the ZigBee protocol, and the Matter 
standard protocol also has a ZigBee alliance as a platform. Can Matter 
replace ZigBee? The answer is no

First of all, the Matter protocol standard seems to open up the 
connection between WIFI communication technology and low-power devices, 
but Matter needs a bridging device between the IEEE802.15.4 standard 
protocol and the IEEE802.11 standard protocol, that is, the "edge 
gateway", so the Matter communication protocol Still need to rely on the 
gateway.

Secondly, when the Matter device is connected to the network, it needs 
to perform human-computer interaction on the device side, so many Matter 
chips are ZigBee and BLE dual-mode chips (E73 series wireless modules). 
to the same IEEE802.15.4 protocol mode as the ZigBee standard protocol.

In addition, Matter is based on IPv6, so the resource consumption of the 
protocol stack for wireless module chips is much larger than that of 
ZigBee technology. Although the number of chips can reduce the cost, the 
software development cost and software maintenance cost of the Matter 
wireless module are also higher than that of the ZigBee module.

Can Matter replace the zigbee protocol?

In fact, Matter wireless technology is not to replace ZigBee technology, 
but to complement ZigBee protocol. At present, Matter has only released 
version 1.0, which is far less mature and reliable than ZigBee 3.0. And 
Matter will be backward compatible with ZigBee in the future. Since 
Matter uses the same IEEE802.15.4 protocol as ZigBee, and Matter is also 
derived from ZCL, a bridge device between ZigBee and Matter may appear 
in the future.