Humanistic Lighting Across Industries

Healthcare

Through a human being’s circadian system, light helps our bodies know when to be active and when to rest. Today, however, the natural light/dark cycle of a day is being replaced by artificial cycles, and our internal clocks are increasingly working without day and night contrast. 

We’ve developed lighting with programmable dimming capabilities that mitigate these disruptions and, for example, help nurses stay alert throughout the night shift. Further, we’ve created LED lighting technology that can control the spectrum of light emitted to mimic the natural cycle and help provide the right type of light at the right time of day.

Education

In schools, lighting is emerging as a new tool for improving classroom experience — on par with digital tablets and white boards. Our tunable white luminaires allow light to be adjusted to optimal levels for specific classroom activities. Additionally, combining this technology with daylighting and controls offers an optimal experience that harnesses the use of natural lighting.  For example, warm lighting provides a more relaxing environment for individualized tasks, whereas, cooler lighting is best suited for increasing energy levels.

Commercial Office

In commercial buildings, our new integrated energy metering and visualization capabilities — integrated into a smart, networked lighting/HVAC controller — give building managers a window to energy use, with accurate data on consumption, and help identify usage trends and savings. 

And our flexible lighting technologies like OLED have married art form and functionality, transforming the common lighting experience into one that stirs our emotions.

Infrastructure

On streets and roadways, our wireless streetlight monitoring systems enable system owners and operators to remotely monitor, control and measure luminaire performance, helping to reduce truck rolls and delays in vital maintenance. And our high-mast LED lighting provides higher light output to help keep drivers alert and safe.

Also, we are applying new techniques and technologies to mitigate glare discomfort.  And we’ve designed LED lighting that reduces light scattering and “sky glow” due to atmospheric and environmental conditions.

Retail

In retail stores, our smart, connected LED lighting outfitted with advanced digital visual and Bluetooth® communications is enabling ultra-precise indoor positioning and wayfinding to guide shoppers to the products they want and allow retailers to communicate with customers in real time in the aisles.  Data from these systems allows store managers to optimize staffing and store layouts to enhance customer satisfaction and reduce operating cost.

Industrial

In today’s automated warehouses, light-level loss from traditional lighting can impede barcode scanning, essential to efficient picking and retrieval.  Our LED high-bay lighting provides the full, consistent lighting that workers and scanners need to work faster and more accurately.

Indoors, brighter, more uniformly lit spaces with fewer dark spots can help reduce accidents. Outdoors, using a lighting color that closely resembles daylight makes people, vehicle colors and equipment easier to distinguish.