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About our Indoor Sunlighting

Natural sunlight provides well-documented benefits to people’s health and wellbeing. Healthier and happier employees are more productive, improving your company’s performance and profits.

Our biomimicry sunlighting solutions help your buildings, your tenants, and you become more sustainable and efficient.

Benefits

Reduced Costs

Reduce your CapEx costs by reducing electrical infrastructure and air conditioning needs. Cut your OpEx expenses by reducing electricity costs. Both savings will lead to healthier profits for your business or building.

Happier Employees

Exposure to sunlight increases the brain’s release of serotonin, fighting stress and boosting mood levels. Sunlight also modulates our circadian rhythms. Post-exposure sleep is deeper and results in a more rested state upon waking.

Low Maintenance

Healthy buildings are efficient and easier to maintain. The Sun On-Demand™’s long bulb life span means less maintenance and lower upkeep costs.

Increased Productivity

Sunlight provides many well-documented health benefits. Healthy people lead to higher productivity, less absenteeism, and faster learning, lowering labor costs and improving the bottom line.

Case Studies

Biomimicry Sunlighting
vs. Conventional Fluorescent 

A study conducted by the Lighting Resource Center found employees preferred working under biomimicry sunlight over traditional fluorescents. Employees at the Swedish Post terminal in Sundsvall sorted through mail under biomimicry sunlight, while their peers in the town of Umea worked under fluorescent.

The Sundsvall staff reported better comfort, fewer shadows and less glare from the biomimicry sunlight technology.

Findings also confirmed fewer errors, lower absenteeism, and lower lighting operating costs because the efficiency of biomimicry sunlighting far surpassed traditional T8 fluorescent lamps. Note: the same is true for LEDs.

Hill Air Force Base
Biomimicry Sunlighting 

Utah’s Hill Air Force Base reported several benefits from implementing biomimicry sunlighting technology in their aircraft hangers. In partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy, their goal was to install a system that would pay for itself in savings while also increasing existing light levels and light quality for workers.

With a seven year payback, the sunlighting technology produced lighting levels that were 130% to 160% brighter than the previous lighting system. Workers in the building reported improvements in reading small lettering and color coding on control panels and wires, due to higher light levels and excellent color rendering.

The most recent version of AZENTIVE’s biomimicry sunlighting technology would reduce the payback period to two years. It would  also increase light levels by at least two-fold with vast improvements in coverage uniformity from the full spectrum sunlighting.