Illuminating wellness with lighting design

By Radiant Lighting | 21 Apr 2022 | 0 Comments

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In previous posts, we’ve discussed what makes a high quality LED as well as when certain lights can be used such as task lighting. 

Today we’re here to discuss what happens when you go past those concepts and highlight how good (or bad) lighting can affect us as humans and our overall wellness.

Fundamentally, our daily lives are dictated by the natural rhythm of daylight and darkness.  Now more than ever, our daytimes are spent indoors in offices and workspaces rather than outdoors toiling in the sun.  New research suggests we spend us much as 90% of our lives inside.  That is a tremendous amount of time and speaks volumes about our need to prioritise our wellbeing indoors.

Circadian rhythms and human centric lighting

Your circadian rhythm is your sleep-wake pattern over the course of a 24-hour day.  It helps control your daily schedule for when you should feel awake and when you should be sleeping.
As mentioned before, we spend an ever increasing amount of time indoors and that has affected our interaction with light.  Therefore, lighting solutions that follow the natural cycle of the body’s circadian rhythm can improve our overall sense of wellbeing.

Natural light tends to be a warm orange hue in the early morning and late in the afternoon whereas it’s a cooler blue in the middle of the day.  Those colour temperatures are in sync with our natural rhythm.  The sun provides a dynamic source of lighting so we should be moving beyond lighting systems that just offer ‘on-off’ and dim.  We can now consider more dynamic variables such as the time of day, user preferences, outdoor conditions, colour hues and much more.  

This kind of lighting control system, where we try closely replicate natural light with artificial lighting is called human-centric lighting.

Good lighting is more than just quality

Historically, people considered bad lighting as one that didn’t meet standards or was clearly just bad - too much glare, too bright, flickers or has bad colour rendering.

We hope you agree that it can be much better than that.
Good lighting starts with high quality products and we’re now seeing how lighting can be more than just ‘on-off’.

Do you have more questions about lighting design? Learn more about all the LED options we have on offer by exploring our website or getting in touch with us here.

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