The low-power wireless smart home, buoyed by the big-name buy-in from the Matter project, is now paving the way for Thread dominance. This is according to a trio of senior Thread Group leaders, which spoke to Wireless Watch’s sister service, Faultline, last week, on the matter of whether Matter matters for the operators. Matter is an open standard being developed by the Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA) – the body formerly called Connected Home over IP (CHIP). Matter ultimately boils down to a framework that allows devices to interact with each other. This starts with giving the devices a common messaging language, classifications, and then enabling a multi-vendor cross-talking environment where a lightbulb is happy to be linked to a motion…