Transforming Spaces with Tunable White Lighting
Tunable white is a lighting option that allows for dynamic control over environments by adjusting the color temperature of the white lighting. When enabled, the lighting within a space can become flexible and change based on the specific task at hand, the time of day, or for personal comfort. Fixtures with a tunable white solution implemented allow for customization of color temperature by mixing multiple sets of white LEDs in different ratios to allow different perceived lighting outputs. By varying the color temperature from warm to cool tones, the optimal lighting effect for any task can be achieved in the same physical location.
Education
Schools that use the same classroom for multiple subjects can modify the color temperature and intensity of light to calm or invigorate students, or to focus their attention based on the subject being taught. Controlling lighting in classrooms based on tasks can have various positive educational outcomes for the students.
Healthcare
In a hospital, patient well-being is top priority and implementing tunable white lighting allows the illumination in a patient room to change depending on the situation, offering the best care and comfort to patients. For example, when tunable white lighting is implemented, warm white light can be emitted for the comfort of the patient while they are resting and the lighting can be switched to cool white to allow healthcare professionals to examine the patient in the same room.
Commercial
As workplaces shift to employee-centric spaces, providing flexibility in the lighting can enable improvements in productivity and expand the useability of spaces across functions or personal preferences. Providing employees the option to adjust the color temperature of the lighting in their workspace can lead to improved employee satisfaction and more efficient operations. Employers can also focus on optimizing attentiveness with the correct lighting changing throughout the workday. Tunable white light can also add flexibility to common spaces and allow for changes in lighting for specific task-based activities.
Residential
With the implementation of tunable white lighting in the home, illumination of flexible spaces can change based on activities or time of day and can support the human circadian rhythm, which plays a key role in healthy sleep and attentiveness. Changing lighting in a flex space such as a living room can allow for cool white to be emitted for a task needing focus, while warm white could be emitted to support relaxation at the end of day.
ARKALUMEM
Using APT Intelligent Controllers to Implement Tunable White
Arkalumen offers APT controllers that are purpose designed to implement tunable white solutions within fixtures in a simple and flexible manner. Arkalumen’s APT intelligent controllers are designed for various applications, each with a variety of hardware versions suitable for different lighting control protocols. The APT-CC and APT-CV2 product families add advanced control features to constant current and constant voltage drivers respectively, with no need for auxiliary power sources in the fixtures.
Create a Tunable White System Using APT Intelligent Controllers and Arkalumen’s LED Modules
APT Intelligent Controllers
APT-CC
APT-CV2
