Circadian Lighting and its Benefits
People-centered lighting seeks to encourage the effects that light has on human health and how lighting can be a more widespread and applied element of wellness.
More and more scientific and medical studies are linking exposure to light with the alteration of circadian rhythms, energy or exposure to certain diseases, both physical and mental. Do you want to know more about circadian lighting? Lighting Adapted to Biorhythm
We spend 90% of our daily day exposed to artificial light and indoors. Natural light is key to both our physical and cerebral well-being, as light is one of the main elements that influences the secretion of melatonin, which is the hormone responsible for regulating wake-sleep cycles.
Melatonin production can be attenuated or activated by the type of light, which has an impact on sleep-wake cycles. At this point, the concept of circadian rhythm that defines changes in mental, behavioral and physical states becomes important, with light being one of the main factors that triggers this process.
¿Qué es la Iluminación Circadiana?
A circadian lighting design begins with activation upon awakening and then creates a state of alertness in the early hours of the day to stimulate concentration on daily tasks. As the day progresses, it should encourage relaxation and, finally, rest. From all this we can deduce that, by using different color temperatures, as well as different light spectrums, throughout the day, we will produce a concrete impact on the physical and emotional states of the subjects. These will favor natural cycles even in spaces with artificial lighting.
Circadian lighting can also help to restore disturbed biorhythms such as when suffering from jet lag or when users have had their natural sleep cycle altered by night work etc.
Dynamic lighting is the best strategy to adapt to users’ circadian rhythms. Thanks to the flexibility it provides, it is possible to vary intensities, color temperatures and even select the most appropriate spectral configuration to achieve the optimum effect for each moment and function, as is the case with multispectral lighting.
Circadian Lighting in your Home
If we transfer this idea of circadian lighting to the prototype of housing that enhances our welfare to implement changes that bring great benefits, in relation to temperature or light intensity and its variation, depending on the activity to be performed.
For all of these reasons, the approach to LED lighting as if it were natural lighting is key to wellness and health, regulating the biological clock or promoting sustainability.
Mainly, dimmable LED lighting allows control and dimming that makes artificial light behave like natural light, varying in intensity, composition or duration, favoring the biodynamic regulation to which the human being responds unconsciously.
SOL HOME has developed its housing prototype incorporating constructive solutions and materials that enhance our well-being, savings and connectivity. The LED technology used is based on a spectral distribution more similar to the spectrum of natural light than standard LED technology.
We have reduced harmful blue light emissions (emission in the 450 nm wavelength) in the lighting to eliminate fatigue, visual stress and early onset of macular degeneration or other eye diseases, and, on the other hand, we have increased the optimal blue light emissions for circadian stimulation (480 nm).
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