When you say, “air pollution”, the first things that may come to mind include carbon monoxide, lead, particulates, and factory or industry waste - the stuff we breathe outside. But the air we breathe inside is often much more important. Indoor air quality can be two to five times as polluted as outdoor air, thanks to dangers like smoke - thinking of my chain-smoking grandmother; mold, cleaning chemicals, various particulates, and as we learn the hard way from COVID, airborne illness. Factor in the estimates from the US Environmental Protect Agency, that Americans spend an average of 90% of their time indoors, and it’s safe to say the air inside our homes, schools, factories, and businesses, is worth a closer look. With me today is Ronan Cooney, head of product at Ambisense.

Welcome to In Between the Tech. Today, we're wrapping up Mouser’s look at Digital Therapeutics. Mouser sits down with Simon Thomas, President at Freespira to get his thoughts on the momentum behind this technology and the opportunities for engineers in this space. Listen as he shares his unique perspective in this innovative new field of digital therapeutics.

Welcome back to the Tech Between us. We're continuing our conversation about Digital Therapeutics with Dr. Smit Patel, Associate Director at the Digital Medicine Society. To catch up on part one of our conversation, visit our Empowering Innovation Together page to get caught up on part one.

On this episode of In Between the Tech, we're rounding out Mouser's look at the Matter Protocol. Sujata Neidig, Director of Marketing for Wireless Connectivity at NXP Semiconductors sits down with Mouser to share her thoughts on the Matter protocol. Sujata has been working on Matter from early days and has a unique perspective on what the protocol can do for the smart home.

Welcome back to The Tech Between Us for part 2 of our conversation on the Matter Protocol with Chris LaPré, Chief Technical Officer at the Connectivity Standards Alliance. To hear what you missed about the Matter Protocol, listen to part one to get caught up on their discussion.

Growing up, one of my favorite shows was the Jetsons. Now to be clear, while the antics of George, Jane, Judy, and his boy Elroy did make me laugh, it was really the gadgets that got me hooked on the show. Okay. Yeah. I was a nerd from way back. Their lives were filled with technology, but how much did the show get right about future home life? Well, let's see. They had flying cars that turned into suitcases, a maid-shaped robot named Rosie, and more home automation gadgets than we could name. Well, today we don't have Rosie, but we do have a short circular disc named Roomba vacuuming our floors for us. Prototype robots are folding and putting clothes away. 3D printers are making estates, and we can accomplish a lot just by speaking out loud to Siri or Alexa, and the list goes on. Now, the problem with all this in today's world is that it takes feats of technological gymnastics to get Siri to talk to my Ring Doorbell camera, or to get Alexa to control my Nest thermostat. They simply don't speak the same language, and as much as the hacker in me enjoyed putting the pieces together, this situation may all be coming to an end soon with the release of the Matter specification. On this episode of The Tech Between Us, we are joined by guest Chris LaPré, Chief Technical Officer at the Connectivity Standards Alliance, to talk about this one protocol to unite them all.

Welcome to a special bonus episode of The Tech Between Us. Hear questions that didn't make it into our regular podcast episodes as host Raymond Yin and guest, Dr. Imre Gyuk discuss green energy storage systems.Dr. Gyuk has been a leader in energy storage at the DOE since the technology first attracted interest and is currently enjoying its emergence as one of the hottest topics in the energy business. For the past two decades, he has directed work on a wide portfolio of storage technologies for a broad spectrum of applications, partnering with states, tribes, and municipalities on numerous projects for grid scale demonstrations. Most recently, he is involved with long duration storage and energy justice.

Welcome back to The Tech Between Us for part 2 of our conversation on Green Energy Storage Systems with Dr. Imre Gyuk, Director of Energy Storage Research at the US Department of Energy, Office of Electricity. To hear what you missed about Green Energy Storage Systems, listen to part one to get caught up on their discussion.

When the Industrial Revolution ushered in our reliance on machines for transportation and telecommunications, and the good life, it meant fossil fuels were a go-to source for generating power on a global scale. Renewable energy sources such as solar, wind, and hydroelectricity that were once used to propel steamboats or to produce paper had taken a very distant backseat.It was only when our access to fossil fuels were cut off, as experienced during the energy crisis of the 1970s, did renewable energies get renewed attention. In fact, exploration of renewable energy solutions began in earnest around that time. Fast forward 50 years, and today renewable sources fulfilled 26% of our global energy requirements with nuclear accounting for an additional 10%. While the most recognizable manifestations of renewable energy are solar panels and wind turbine farms, today's focus is on the engines that run these systems.What you don't see when you're driving past those gigantic wind turbines along the highway is the ecosystem behind that installation, including storage, monitoring and distribution that must be in place to effectively use these devices as a sustainable energy source.To help us understand more about renewable energy and in particular critical energy storage systems, we have with us Dr. Imre Gyuk, Director of Energy Storage Research for the US Department of Energy. Dr. Gyuk has been a leader in energy storage at the DOE since the technology first attracted interest and is currently enjoying its emergence as one of the hottest topics in the energy business.