The Neuroscience
Humans are naturally drawn to blue sky light. In our eyes, there are receptors (the intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cell) that detect blue light and sends signals directly to the alertness, mood and learning centers of our brain. This blue sky light exposure keeps us alert, focused, and in a good mood during the day.
The Right Light?
This newly discovered receptor is non-visual, and thus require a new metric to measure how light affects our health, allowing us to quantify the wellness effects of light. This new metric is called the melanopic equivalent daylight illuminance (melanopic EDI.)
How Much Do We Need?
The world’s leading scientists and experts on light and health reached a consensus in 2022 that lighting for wellness needs to obtain a melanopic EDI of 250 lux. This consensus criteria has now been adopted by the majority of all lighting, (IES and CIE) wellness (IWBI) and building authorities (GSA P100) in the world.
Modern Lighting Practices Fall Way Short of the Wellness Mark
When we look at this new wellness criteria through the lens of the wellness criteria, we find that modern lighting practices are astonishingly low. A standard office building provides you with one third of the wellness lighting needed to meet these new criteria. In fact, Circadian Rhythm Nobel Laureate, stated that lack of light during the day is even worse than issues of light at night.
Modern problems require modern solutions
Peter Drucker famously said that you can’t improve what you don’t measure. Existing lighting has been optimized for the old lighting criterion. With a new metric and a new criterion comes a new solution. Luckily, the team at SkyView have been working on this solution for the past 15 years.
As former subject matter expert for NASA, founder Robert Soler has worked on creating healthier spaces with the Department of Defense, National Institute of Health, Department of Energy, Cincinatti Children’s Hospital, and more.
Blue sky is the secret to better days
SkyView’s patented Gradient Circadian Optimization (GCO) technology is born from the need for a solution that is good for the people and good for the planet.
