25 IKEA smart home devices now carry full Matter-over-Thread support, which means they connect directly to a Samsung SmartThings hub without requiring a separate IKEA hub.

The list of devices covers smart bulbs, plugs, motion sensors, door sensors, water leak sensors, air quality sensors, temperature and humidity sensors, and a scroll wheel remote.

Previously, getting IKEA devices into SmartThings required both companies’ hubs running in parallel. Two hubs for one ecosystem is the kind of friction that pushes first-time buyers straight back to doing nothing.

SmartThings was the first platform to adopt Thread 1.4. Samsung isn’t just adding compatibility; it’s actually collapsing the infrastructure overhead that made multi-brand setups annoying.

Once your IKEA sensors, like the air quality sensor and door sensor, are in SmartThings, they are ready to ease your life. Samsung and IKEA ran multiple rounds of validation before launch and built a dedicated interface inside the SmartThings app for these devices.

Jaeyeon Jung, Executive Vice President of SmartThings, framed it plainly: affordable entry, familiar experience, no financial burden.

“By connecting IKEA devices to SmartThings, even first-time smart home users can enjoy a familiar and easy connectivity experience without financial burden,” said Jaeyeon Jung, Executive Vice President of SmartThings, AI Platform Center at Samsung Electronics. “SmartThings will continue to expand its ecosystem through partnerships, enabling more consumers to enjoy seamless and convenient smart home experience within the SmartThings ecosystem regardless of brand or communication protocol.”

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