The majority of banks in Europe are looking forward to introducing human-centric lighting. Among them is the SpareBank 1 Norde-Norge Branch office, located around 80 kilometers south of the Arctic circle. It has implemented the human-centric lighting technology to mitigate polar night depression in the employees. It is an issue concerning northern area residents who are deprived of daylight in the winter months.

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Experts are working on changing the intensity and color temperature of the lighting that helps to imitate daylight brightness. Thereby employees can concentrate better with a better sense of wellbeing, reducing sleep disorders by setting sleep-wake cycles. In the locations where up to 10% of residents suffer from polar night depression, this technology is of greater importance. It causes dejected humor, low energy levels, reduced motivation, and fatigue. To prevent these problems from affecting their staff, employers are gearing up for the winter with this type of lighting technology.

Research is on the high for such a Lighting Technology

In the western countries of Norway and the Netherlands, research is on to determine the impact of human-centric lighting technology on people in the office and school environments. It is necessary to showcase the effect of the technology on declining sick leaves, improvements in general well being and for all parties involved in such environments and more.

Professor Mark Rea, involved in architecture and cognitive science in New York’s Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and working with Lighting Research Centre, spoke at a conference in Oslo, on how this technology can be put into practice. He explains how LRC comes up with the right recipe helping the lighting industry implement human-centric lighting technology in a variety of environments including schools, offices and other facilities.

What exactly is Human Centric Lighting

This technology is apt to regulate the sleep-wake cycle, and consequently improving productivity, sleep, and general alertness. But the lack of authoritative and independent guidance on how it should be implemented puts them in a mess. LED lighting technology becoming widely accepted, can put into practice, Rea’s recommendations helping organizations move this kind of lighting into the mainstream.

According to Rea, a minimum of 254 lux of vertical illumination for two hours is necessary for the occupants in any environment preferably in the morning hours. Based on the fact that this level of lux helps suppress the sleep hormone, Melatonin, by around 30 percent. His guideline does not replace the circadian effective light index and in turn, reinforces all the light necessary to boost biological effectiveness and so doesn’t specify any light spectrum. In this case, the color rendering of LED lighting products read by the brain does not make any sense.

Facts In Short

It is up to lighting experts and engineers, to provide lighting technology with ideal designs, putting all the above guidelines in action in the real world. It could be that LED lights support the future norm of lighting technology that is human-centric. It is sure to make human-centric lighting technology a daily routine.