Are you aware of the adverse effects of the inappropriate forms and sources of light that we use in our daily lives are contributing negatively to our health ?
Some of the health effects are given below :
• Retinal damage• Brain fatigue• Stress• Migraine• Insomnia• EFD• Cancer• Obesity• Age related Macular degeneration• Skin diseases
According to the governing bodies like CIBSE/CIE and others
It is fully acknowledged that LEDs have made a huge contribution to reduced energy consumption, but three unintended consequences have arisen in the move to light-emitting diode (LED) luminaires and their manufacture over the past decade.
Firstly, the move to LED has created the unmaintainable luminaire, with little or no provision to re-lace either the light engine or the driver on failure. Assuming the most likely components to fail are the capacitors inside the driver, giving a mean time between failures (MTBF) of 50,000 hours, this gives a luminaire life of between 5 and 11 years. At end of life the luminaire is scraped, with the likely destination being raw material recycling, with both the luminaire’s value and the luminaire itself literally being shredded. Lower quality fittings will likely fail earlier.
Secondly, the rate of product development in LED luminaires has made product life cycles both shorter and more complex, for both luminaires and components. The availability of spares, and the ability to identify and source compatible spares, that absolutely match the performance of a five-year-old installation are challenging.
The third development is one of the ‘offshoring’ of product production; whilst it may be inevitable in a price-driven market, the consequences of manufacturing in countries that extensively use fossil fuels, especially coal, in their power generation and then shipping those luminaires and/or components on long sea or air freight journeys is severely damaging to the environment. Long-distance and complex supply chains and the commoditization of luminaires may further limit the availability of spares, or the ability to re-engineer used luminaires.
Fourth too much creativity and new models every year is a threat to the availability of the products bought in present for the future replacement even though the vendors and the manufacturers sign up for 5 years warranty, but if the products will be obsoleted or upgraded (size, efficacies, designs, etc) how does the buyer accommodate after five years for the product bought five years ago?
Points of concern and should be taken into immediate consideration.
1. The correct source and the way of manufacturing the LEDs are very poor thus hazardous for the occupants (High spike of short wavelength)2. Frequent component failure like, drivers, capacitors, LED chips, etc. (Unmaintainable source and negatively contributing to the circular economy)3. Poor quality of plastics and metal being used- hazardous for nature (Circular economy)4. Farcical product design (like panel lighting-high glare)- retinal and brain fatigue.5. No policy on buyback or refurbishment from manufacturers (End of life of the components). 6. Ludicrous lighting design contributes negatively to the circular economy as well as the physiology of the occupants7. Absence of healthy parameters from LEDs (visible and non-visible parameters of light)8. No regulations on gauging the correct parameters other than parameters like McAdam, efficacy, and THD.9. Too much off-shoring thus fossil fuels are wasted and overly used resulting in global warming and other related endangers.10. The true parameters like NIR and FIR including good UVA* is missing in the present form of LEDs.In the pursuit of establishing healthy regulatory lighting standards and contributing toward well-being and healthy spaces, my open letter to our Honorable Prime Minister of India Shree Narendra Damodardas Modiji, and the respective Ministries (departments) to acknowledge and implement lighting for indoor spaces no less than air and water.This is not related to some UV-based germicidal lighting but the healthy visible and non-visible parameters of lighting either from LED or sunlight or any other artificial lighting sources.Please sign the petition, if you agree with the intent and contents of the same, towards our health and wellbeing through the lighting parameters.A fission reaction strives to produce more and more energy, we have reached that impasse, now LIGHTING needs this reaction to be seen and heard.A journey of thousand miles starts but with one….Let's tramp together….as awareness is the key to unlocking and unleashing the ocean of education and knowledge which are the best form of legacies to leave behind for our generations to come….ThanksLets unite and make this happen.
