IKEA is rebuilding its smart home range from the ground up. The furniture giant has announced 21 new smart home products, all built to work with Matter, the universal smart home standard. The launch covers lighting, sensors, and control, and it marks IKEA’s biggest smart home push since it first started exploring the category in 2012.
The new range replaces and upgrades IKEA’s best-known smart products while adding entirely new categories, including air quality and water leakage sensors. Every product in the launch is designed to work across platforms, so an IKEA bulb or sensor can sit in the same home as devices from Apple, Google, Amazon, and Samsung.
What IKEA Launched: 21 Products in Three Groups
IKEA has organised the launch into three segments that it describes as the building blocks of a flexible, expandable smart home: lighting, sensors, and control.
Lighting: The New KAJPLATS Bulb Range
The headline is the KAJPLATS smart bulb range, with eleven variations across shapes, sizes, and brightness levels. The bulbs come in colour and white spectrum options, and all are dimmable. Compared with the previous TRÅDFRI range, each bulb offers more functionality, including more colour options and broader light intensity spans.
The range covers the fittings most homes need:
- E27/E26 standard globe (60 mm): colour and white spectrum at 1,055 lumens, plus white spectrum dimmable versions at 470, 1,055, and 1,521 lumens.
- P45 E14 compact profile (45 mm): white spectrum dimmable at 470 and 806 lumens, plus a colour and white spectrum version at 806 lumens. E14 is also available as E12 and E17 depending on local standards.
- GU10 directional spotlight: colour and white spectrum at 470 lumens, and white spectrum dimmable at 575 lumens.
- Clear-glass decorative bulbs: white spectrum only, dimmable, in E14 at 470 lumens, E27 standard globe at 470 lumens, and E27 large globe (95 mm) at 810 lumens.
Sensors: Five New Ways to Watch the Home
IKEA is adding five sensors designed to support wellbeing and prevent damage around the home:
- MYGGSPRAY: a motion sensor for indoor and outdoor use that turns lighting on automatically in entrances, staircases, garages, and other hands-free spots.
- MYGGBETT: a door and window sensor that detects openings and closings, sends notifications to your phone when connected to a smart system, and can trigger a light in spaces like walk-in closets.
- TIMMERFLOTTE: a temperature and humidity sensor for monitoring indoor climate. Press its button to view temperature, followed by humidity.
- ALPSTUGA: an air quality sensor measuring CO₂, fine particles (PM2.5), temperature, and humidity. It is built to work together with IKEA air purifiers and can also display the time.
- KLIPPBOK: a water leakage sensor small enough to place under sinks and appliances. It detects leaks, sounds an alert, and can send a notification to your phone when connected to a hub.
Control: Remotes and a Smart Plug
The control segment brings two BILRESA remote designs. The dual-button remote switches lights on or off, adjusts brightness, changes colour, or triggers a preset scene. The scroll-wheel version does the same with a simple turn, and can also control a group or a scene. Both remotes are also sold in kits of three colourful versions in green, red, and beige.
The GRILLPLATS smart plug rounds out the launch. It turns ordinary lamps or smaller appliances into smart products, tracks energy use, and can be paired with a remote or motion sensor. IKEA notes that the smart plug has a separate sales start from the rest of the range.
DIRIGERA Hub Ties It Together
All Matter-enabled products need a smart home hub to work, and IKEA points to its own DIRIGERA hub or one from another brand. DIRIGERA is a certified Matter controller, so it can also manage and control smart products from other manufacturers. As a Matter Bridge, it keeps existing IKEA non-Matter smart products compatible with platforms using the Matter standard, protecting the investment of anyone who already owns TRÅDFRI gear.
That bridging role matters. IKEA has sold smart lighting for years under its old Zigbee-based system, and the company is clearly trying to avoid stranding those customers as it moves to Matter. The message is that old and new IKEA products can live in the same home, managed through the same hub.
Why This Launch Matters
IKEA’s pitch is not about cutting-edge specifications. It is about making the smart home easy and affordable enough for people who have never bought a smart device. “Until now, smart home technology hasn’t been easy enough to use for most people — or affordable enough for many to consider. This launch brings us closer to helping everyone feel ready and confident to get started,” said David Granath, Range Manager at IKEA of Sweden.
That positioning is significant because IKEA’s scale is unlike any other smart home brand. The company reports more than 900 million store visits each year, and its stores put smart home products in front of shoppers who would never visit a specialist electronics retailer. If IKEA makes Matter devices a normal part of a furniture shopping trip, the standard reaches a much wider audience than the enthusiast market alone.
The timing also helps Matter’s momentum. The standard has been gaining ground through 2026, with a growing share of new smart home products shipping with Matter support and major platforms — Apple Home, Google Home, Alexa, and SmartThings — all on board. IKEA’s full-range commitment adds one of the world’s largest home brands to that list, and its products are designed to work across all of those platforms rather than locking buyers into a single ecosystem.
Product developer Stjepan Begic framed the launch as a usability upgrade rather than a technology showcase: “This launch is about making the smart home experience better and broader. We’re upgrading our most-appreciated products while also adding new ones to solve even more everyday challenges. Our focus has been on keeping things simple from setup to daily use, so it’s easy for people to start, use and grow a smart home.”
What Comes Next
IKEA describes this launch as the first step in a broader update of its IKEA Home smart range, with more product categories to follow. The strategy, the company says, is to keep launching products that are easier to use and more affordable than existing ones.
Sales start dates and local pricing will vary between markets, and IKEA advises customers to contact their local market for details. That means availability and prices for the KAJPLATS bulbs, the five sensors, and the BILRESA remotes will roll out market by market rather than landing everywhere at once.
For anyone building or expanding a smart home on a budget, the range is worth watching. A full Matter lineup from IKEA — with a hub that bridges older products, sensors that cover air quality and leaks as well as motion, and a plug that adds energy tracking — fills in several gaps that used to require buying from multiple specialist brands. The question now is pricing: IKEA has not yet published local prices, and whether these products undercut rivals on cost will decide how big a deal this launch really is.