What is Healthy Lighting?
For millions of years, humans were exposed to a pattern of sunlight in the morning gradually decreasing through to nighttime.
And at night, human beings were not really exposed to high-intensity light. Our main source of light in pre-history was the light from the moon, stars, and fire.
After 1880 when electric lighting was discovered, as humans, we spend more and more time indoors. Today, more than 90% of our time is spent indoors. We spend a lot of time at night at home: watching TV, surfing on our iPads, iPhones, and our computers late at night. And those have a lot of blue light—there’s more energy in the blue part of the spectrum—which our biological system is really sensitive to.
What's possible with Light for Health and Well-being
Light for health and well-being can be offered as a scalable, wired or wireless networked control system that automatically manages a rhythm of dynamic daylight. With research-based recipes, the lighting system supports the human circadian rhythm to promote healthy sleep patterns and improve well-being for both patients and staff.