A new international measurement standard and guidelines for healthy lighting

Impact: Society and culture, Policy, Economic, Awareness and understanding, Health and wellbeing

Narrative

Light exposure influences health, wellbeing and productivity but existing lighting regulations and practice do not take such ‘non-image-forming’ effects into account. Research from the University of Manchester has established a novel method for quantifying these effects and demonstrated the application of this approach for predicting meaningful biological effects of lighting in real world applications. As a result, the new metric has been adopted as a new international lighting standard, forms the basis of a new set of scientific consensus guidelines for healthy lighting and is being used by the lighting industry to develop products and systems maximising the biological potential of light.
Impact date1 Aug 201331 Dec 2020
Category of impactSociety and culture, Policy, Economic, Awareness and understanding, Health and wellbeing
Impact levelAdoption

Research Beacons, Institutes and Platforms

  • Thomas Ashton Institute