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Biologically Relevant Lighting: An Industry Perspective
Innovations in LED lighting technology have led to tremendous adoption rates and vastly improved the metrics by which they are traditionally evaluated–including color quality, longevity, and energy efficiency to name a few. Additionally, scientific insight has broadened with respect to the biologica...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8215265/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34163318 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2021.637221 |
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description | Innovations in LED lighting technology have led to tremendous adoption rates and vastly improved the metrics by which they are traditionally evaluated–including color quality, longevity, and energy efficiency to name a few. Additionally, scientific insight has broadened with respect to the biological impact of light, specifically our circadian rhythm. Indoor electric lighting, despite its many attributes, fails to specifically address the biological responses to light. Traditional electric lighting environments are biologically too dim during the day, too bright at night, and with many people spending much of their lives in these environments, it can lead to circadian dysfunction. The lighting industry’s biological solution has been to create bluer days and yellower nights, but the technology created to do so caters primarily to the cones. A better call to action is to provide biologically brighter days and biologically darker nights within the built environment. However, current lighting design practices have specified the comfort and utility of electric light. Brighter intensity during the day can often be uncomfortable or glary, and reduced light intensity at night may compromise visual comfort and safety, both of which will affect user compliance. No single lighting solution will effectively create biologically brighter days and biologically darker nights, but rather a variety of parameters need to be considered. This paper discusses the contributions of spectral power distribution, hue or color temperature, spatial distribution, as well as architectural geometry and surface reflectivity, to achieve biologically relevant lighting. |
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spelling | pubmed-82152652021-06-22 Biologically Relevant Lighting: An Industry Perspective Soler, Robert Voss, Erica Front Neurosci Neuroscience Innovations in LED lighting technology have led to tremendous adoption rates and vastly improved the metrics by which they are traditionally evaluated–including color quality, longevity, and energy efficiency to name a few. Additionally, scientific insight has broadened with respect to the biological impact of light, specifically our circadian rhythm. Indoor electric lighting, despite its many attributes, fails to specifically address the biological responses to light. Traditional electric lighting environments are biologically too dim during the day, too bright at night, and with many people spending much of their lives in these environments, it can lead to circadian dysfunction. The lighting industry’s biological solution has been to create bluer days and yellower nights, but the technology created to do so caters primarily to the cones. A better call to action is to provide biologically brighter days and biologically darker nights within the built environment. However, current lighting design practices have specified the comfort and utility of electric light. Brighter intensity during the day can often be uncomfortable or glary, and reduced light intensity at night may compromise visual comfort and safety, both of which will affect user compliance. No single lighting solution will effectively create biologically brighter days and biologically darker nights, but rather a variety of parameters need to be considered. This paper discusses the contributions of spectral power distribution, hue or color temperature, spatial distribution, as well as architectural geometry and surface reflectivity, to achieve biologically relevant lighting. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-06-07 /pmc/articles/PMC8215265/ /pubmed/34163318 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2021.637221 Text en Copyright © 2021 Soler and Voss. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Neuroscience Soler, Robert Voss, Erica Biologically Relevant Lighting: An Industry Perspective |
title | Biologically Relevant Lighting: An Industry Perspective |
title_full | Biologically Relevant Lighting: An Industry Perspective |
title_fullStr | Biologically Relevant Lighting: An Industry Perspective |
title_full_unstemmed | Biologically Relevant Lighting: An Industry Perspective |
title_short | Biologically Relevant Lighting: An Industry Perspective |
title_sort | biologically relevant lighting: an industry perspective |
topic | Neuroscience |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8215265/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34163318 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2021.637221 |
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