Feature Employee Productivity: A Welcome By-Product
As some businesses embrace hybrid working post-pandemic, customisable lighting ensures that the individual lighting needs of all team members are met and are adaptable from one day to the next. Customisable LEDs offer the maximum control of the light level and colour temperature for optimal ambient comfort in an environment.
While not an immediate impact on bills, LED technology reduces the risk of headaches, migraines, eye strain and more. This is due to the technology’s reduction in glare and flickering light while providing more even brightness on a work surface plane. Reducing sick days and injury among your employees.
Colour temperature plays an influential role in employees’ productivity rates and alertness. Investing in tuneable white LED technology allows changes in the tone of lighting, creating either warmer or cooler light. Increased levels of blue light, found in daylight, represses the sleep hormone melatonin which helps team members feel more alert, and as a result, more productive throughout the day.
Smart Technology: For Now And For The Future
Integrating smart technology may be a forward investment, but one that pays dividends down the line. Such capabilities can be added to a building via integrated DALI protocol technology into the building’s infrastructure. DALI (Digital Addressable Lighting Interface) is a dimming protocol that enables two-way communication between electronic devices, which increases the smartness of buildings.
Smart lighting is made possible through built-in control modules, which are easily fitted and programmed to luminaires. This set-up allows any technical issues to be immediately flagged up on the monitoring system so they can be repaired or replaced quickly. The technology also allows for total control over which lights are on and when, as well as at what lux level. This ensures that no energy is wasted in the space and provides full transparency of energy consumption.
Such a system enables streamlining of resources and planning ahead by monitoring luminaire life hours. A system admin will be alerted when a bulb is approaching the ends of its hours, meaning that businesses only need to have exact replacement units on site. Saving money and valuable storage space.
With building refurbishments and fit-outs increasingly integrating such technology as part of the global push to reduce carbon footprints and energy expenditures, smart technology will only become a more critical part of interiors planning.
A Light In The Dark
Lighting is a big expense for business. According to the Carbon Trust, lighting accounts for 20% of energy consumption in commercial and industrial buildings, and comprises as much as 40% of the final bill7
. By investing in wireless, smart and high-tech
LED lighting, businesses are able to maximise savings on their energy bills. All while lowering carbon footprint and increasing energy efficiency.
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