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Project Sustainability

Each month, the show welcomes a new guest who will unpack a specific topic, spanning multiple episodes. Host Peggy Smedley will dive into her guest’s desire to provide alternatives that will empower each of us on what it means to have a healthy home. Simply all the innovations from energy, air, water, lighting, security, appliances, and more that impact our homes.

With a focus on technology—and how it works in the home—listeners will gain a deeper understanding of what’s coming next and what’s already possible today. Determined to give a glimpse into the future, Smedley ends every series with the same question: How can we do even more simply by managing our energy consumption to help make the world healthier, safer, and greener today and for future generations?

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An Update on Indoor Air Quality

Mar 28, 2023

Peggy Smedley and Chris Howells, senior training and development manager, AprilAire Academy, talk about the importance of indoor air quality in our homes. He says we take on average 20,000 breaths per days, which is 3,000 pounds of air we are putting into our body, and we spend 90% of our times indoors. With all this in...

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CASAS Smart Home

Mar 21, 2023

Peggy Smedley and Diane Cook, professor, Washington State University, talk about smart homes and what she has done with the CASAS Smart Home project at Washington State University. She explains how the project started with her interest in finding an application of machine learning that would challenge the field...

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Sensing the Smart Home

Mar 14, 2023

Peggy Smedley and Diane Cook, professor, Washington State University, talk about the data that can be acquired by sensors in our home and the CASAS Smart Home project. She says her background is designing machine learning techniques, which are computer programs that learn patterns from data.

They also discuss:

  • Three...

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LEDs: Ups and Downs

Mar 7, 2023

Peggy Smedley and Martin Moore-Ede, director, Circadian Light Research Center, talk about the significance of circadian light. He says it is a critical topic and we are all focused on health—but in fact the light you see is as important to your health as any food you eat, water you drink, or air you breath.

They also...

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