What are the benefits of color tuning?
Light controls your mind more than you may think. Your brain receives signals from light to tell your body when it’s daytime or nighttime, which controls the amount of melatonin released in your body. Melatonin regulates how sleepy or alert you are. Now that many of us are indoors all day with little or no access to windows, our bodies cannot react to changes in sunlight properly. A color tuned system can be set to mimic regular natural light patterns – starting out more warm in the morning, then more white during the day, before it gradually becomes warmer again at the end of the day.
Color tuning can be extremely beneficial in hundreds of industries, including offices, schools, healthcare facilities, manufacturing plants, and distribution centers. Here are some examples of how color tuning can enhance and improve an environment:
In a factory or plant:
At the office:
In the classroom:
In healthcare spaces:
Perhaps one of the more interesting examples of how effective color tuning lighting systems can be is their use in Las Vegas. Color tuning has been used there as a way of keeping people up all night so they will continue to gamble, eat, drink, and spend money shopping.
Another great feature of color tuning is that it uses lighting controls that can be customized to provide scheduling, occupancy sensing, and daylighting benefits, which can save a facility even more energy dollars.
Color temperature is a way of describing the warmness or coolness of a light source. It is measured in degrees Kelvin(K), with temperatures ranging from 1,000K to 10,000K. Lower temperatures are more warm and orange, while cooler temperatures are more blue. This is what the different color temperatures look like:
LED color temperature is controlled manually within the lighting fixture. Usually, this is controlled by a wireless control system or there is a dip switch on a fixture that allows you to choose your preferred color temperature setting. This technology allows installers to customize color temperatures for your facility. For example, the installation crew could set the fixtures in your office to 3,500K, while out in the warehouse the lights are set to 5,000K.
You can also control lighting through a smart lighting system, which allows you to turn your lights off and on and adjust color temperature and brightness remotely. Most utility providers offer increased incentive amounts when installing advanced wireless controls.
Yes, it can when used with specific color tuning LED fixtures. You can simply adjust the correlated color temperature (CCT) through a slider control with a dimmable light switch or control it via a smartphone app. Keep in mind, this only works with LEDs, not older, outdated lighting technology.
Our lighting and controls division at WattLogic can help with putting together a color tuning LED package for your office, warehouse, or production facility. The first step would be to schedule a virtual meeting where we will discuss your specific needs and goals.
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