LED Lights Improve Your Life and Health
Ever since the late 19th century, when Edison invented the first incandescent lamp, the electric lights have changed the way human beings live and made it possible for ordinary men to extend their days even after the sun goes down. The lighting industry evolved ever since, from incandescent lights to halogen lights to fluorescent lights and so on. With the newest invention of LED lights, scientists have finally found the best lighting solutions that overcome all the previous disadvantages. The scientists who invented efficient blue LED won 2014 Nobel Prize for their revolutionary inventions. “Incandescent light bulbs lit the 20th century; the 21st century will be lit by LED Lamps”, quoted from Nobel Prize Org. So why are LEDs lights so highly regarded and what benefits do they bring to humankind?
There are many benefits that span across health, environment, safety and economy aspects.
Health
Research has indicated that LED lights have a variety of health benefits. From improving circadian rhythm, reducing headaches, eliminating toxic elements, to enhancing productivity and decreasing stress, LED Lights have proven to be the best lights that impact positivity to our body and mind.
Regulate Circadian Rhythm
Our sun provides us the natural light that tells us when to wake up and go to sleep in a 24 hour light dark cycle, which is knowns as our Circadian Rhythm. People that lack exposure to natural sunlight are prone to have issues as a result of abnormal hormonal secretion, such as sleep deprivation, depression etc.
Traditional lighting solutions do not provide the specific spectrum of light required to reach the same effect as natural lighting, even with the specialized “natural” light fluorescent tubes. Fortunately, recent LED lighting development has allowed LEDs to mimic natural light by controlling light spectrum as well as in terms of low glare and dimming. As a result, our circadian rhythm are checked in balance with exposures to LED lights.
Reduce Headaches
One of the biggest annoying features about fluorescent lights is they flicker very often, which not only disturbs contrentation but also causes headaches or migraines. There was an experiment done by University of Essex that showed “office workers were half as likely on average to experience headaches under the non-flickering lights”. Good news is that LED bulbs do not flicker, which can help ease headaches.
No Mercury
Traditional incandescent and fluorescent lights contain mercury, which is a noxin elements that are harmful to human bodies and environment. Contact of mercury is harmful to the brain development of children and unborn babies, and corrosive to the skin, eyes and gastrointestinal tract. Inhalation of mercury vapour can produce harmful effects on the nervous, digestive and immune systems, and may be fatal. However, fluorescent bulbs break all the time, which makes mercury vapour and contact such high chance incident that can happen to your family.
On the other hand, LED lights do not contain any mercury or other known toxic elements, which makes it a good alternative.
Enhance Productivity and Learning Performance
Research carried out by 2018 National Bureau of Economic reported One Company experienced a 0.7% increase increase productivity after upgrading to LED lighting. Another study that compared fluorescent and LED lights by International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics, also found an 8.3% performance improvement in visual and cognitive tasks. The same study found employees working under LED lights had faster reaction time, reduced fatigue and increased activity.
Similar experiment done in schools found similar results -- “students working under biologically-optimized classroom lighting achieved better results than the comparison group on standardized tests for concentration ability, and their performance speed also increased. And the “biologically-optimized” lighting was implemented using blue and white LEDs.
In addition, LED Lights also operate silently without flickering noises, unlike fluorescent tubes and HIDs that gave off clicking and buzzing sound intermittently, which can be very distracting. LED Lights really improve your efficiency by providing a quiet and peaceful space.
Less Anxiety and Stress
As stated earlier, LED lights can mimic natural sunlight and helps regulate people’s circadian rhythm, which helps decrease stress and anxiety in indoor environments. Numerous studiesresearches have also proved that Schools and Offices switching to LED lights helped increase students’ and employees’ productivity and learning performances. LED lights contribute greatly to a happier and healthier environment and reduce symptoms such as “Sick Building Syndrome” and common side effects such as low energy, irritability and depression.
Environment
LED lights are the most environmentally friendly choice out there in the market. Being long-lasting and energy-efficient, LEDs minimized green gas carbon emission from power plants. Not containing toxic chemicals to the environment, LEDs do not require special handling or disposing; Moreover, these small compact lights are also great for your indoor plants to grow, which in turn, help promote a greener environment.
Minimize Green Gas Emissions
LED lights have a much less energy consumption and much longer life compared with incandescent and fluorescent lights, which lead to much fewer greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.
The impact is also clearly stated in Nobel Prize release: “As about one fourth of world electricity consumption is used for lighting purposes, the LEDs contribute to saving the Earth’s resources.”
The most recent record compared LED with traditional light bulbs: 1 LED light produces about 300 lumens per watt, which can be compared to 16 for regular light bulbs, and close to 70 for fluorescent lamps. This is amplified in our annual energy usage of 30 times lower electricity consumption, and 1.8 billion metric tons of reduced carbon emissions. By 2030, LED could cut the demand for electricity for lighting by one-third.
“LED is a highly energy efficient lighting technology, and has the potential to fundamentally change the future of lighting in the United States”, US Department of Energy is promoting an LED dominant country in the near future.
No Environment-Polluting Chemicals
LED lights do not contain mercury, which helps reducing pollution to the environment. Mercury does not only harm human well beings, but only have long term negative impact to the environment. It will contaminate the soil and water when disposed of in landfill waste. Disposal has to be arranged through a registered waste management service and takes extra steps. By using LED system, there is no potential harm of polluting the environment with toxic chemicals.
Safety
Besides health and environmental benefits, LED lights also exhibit safety features such as resistance to impact and vibrations, ensure extreme cold or hot weather. Meanwhile, the low voltage operation also makes them good choices to be around offices and homes.
Durable in extreme conditions
LED lights are solid state technology that are completely sealed and extremely resistant to vibrations, impact and shocks, and harsher weather. The current high quality LED lights can easily handles temperatures up to 60°C (140°F) degrees celsius, and as low as -40°C (-40°F) degree celsius.
In addition, there are no glass parts contained in the LEDs and hence no injury risk in case of breaking. On the other hand, incandescent and fluorescent bulbs both use fragile elements that are susceptible to breakage.
The strong durability nature of LED also make it suitable for a variety of conditions such as outdoor winter setting, freezer rooms etc.
Low Voltage Operation
LED lights operates at low voltagein a low voltage settings and hence much safer than other traditional lighting solutions. High voltage can cause injuries and fatalities. Contact with an electric current cause electrocution, electric shock, burns or falls due to loss of consciousness or loss of muscle control. Due to its energy efficient nature, LED bulbs only operate at low as 12 voltsDC voltage 12V.
Economy
Savings on yourin Electric Bill
Savings in energy also translates to savings on your in electricity bill. After climbing for decades, electricity use by American households has declined over the past eight years, in sync with the trend that LEDs lights are rapidly replacing incandescent and fluorescent lights.
Estimated by US Department of Energy, widespread use of LED lighting has the greatest potential impact on energy savings in the US. By 2027, widespread use of LEDs could save about 348TWh of electricity: This is the equivalent annual electrical output of 44 large electric power plants, and a total savings of more than $30 billion at today’s electricity prices.
Long lifespan
LED bulbs have an unusually long lifespan compared to traditional light bulbs. LEDs last up to 100,000 hours, compared to 1000 hours for incandescent bulbs and 10,000 hours for fluorescent lights. If you use an LED bulb for 12 hours a day, it may work for over 11 years.
Coupled with durability, LED really make it the undisputed most economically viable choice for the lighting system.
More Color Varieties
Traditional fluorescent and incandescent lights are famous for their single color profiles and shift. Most of them only produce either blue or white color. LEDs on the other hand allows a variety of different color temperature and dimming features. These all make the space more welcoming and exhibit different atmosphere as needed. LED lights are more adaptable and provide more functions than other lights.
Lumoso Home LED Lamps
All of our Lumoso Home products use LED as our lighting source. You can enjoy all the benefits brought by the latest evolution of lighting technology and improve your life quality at your fingertips. Each lamp has unique designs and additional functional features that bring you relaxed and happy feelings. Our team hand-picked every one of them to ensure they are of high quality and promoting a healthy and happy lifestyle. In addition, all our packaging is designed to reduce carbon footprint and are friendly to our environment.