Reducing the Effects of Blue Light in LED Lighting

The LED Lighting revolution is not set to stop any time soon, and it is a technology which has well and truly reinvented the wheel. One of this generations’ major discoveries (if not the major invention), LED Lighting such as LED Strip Lights and LED Rope Lights will make the world a much better place, and it is a discovery which will benefit both humankind as well as the planet we live on.

The usage of LED Lighting is vast and varied – and only looks to rise as people understand the benefits the technology can provide them. This is set to happen from 2020 - the European Union and the USA have voted to abolish older lighting systems such as CFL and Halogen bulbs. If anything, LED Lighting is a technology which is already popular for how energy conscious, and how cost-saving it is, but is due to become the standard.

Yet, LED Lighting is a technology. Technology, by its very nature, is not something which is created perfectly. The wheel was the biggest invention known to mankind, yet it was not an invention invented with a variety of tyres. One of the barriers on LED Lighting is the fact that it has been discovered that the blue light emitted by it is a little too good.

The blue light emitted by LED devices, such as lighting, strip lights, rope lights, as well as LED TV screens, phones, tablets, and more just so happen to be that good at imitating the light which comes from the sun, that it tends to set our sleeping patterns a little awry.

You’re not thought strange nowadays should you spend more than 2 hours a day watching the television or using a computer. Getting up in the middle of the night to check a phone sound is not that strange (though we do advise you to stop!) , and due to this, having blue light shined at you can indeed make your subconscious think that the sun is up and that it is time to start the day.

This, of course, can lead to problems with sleep – and in the worst cases, there is a link between this and insomnia. A rather fun fact is that should you have a LED Light Bulb, you will notice that pest bugs such as moths and mosquitos shy away from them, as they, themselves consider the light emitted by a LED bulb no different than the light of the sun.

What is there to do? Throw away every LED device you have away, and revert back to radio, energy-wasting light bulbs and gigantic energy bills as a result? We hope not. We’re certainly doing nothing of the sort! Research has been conducted into ways to reduce the amount of blue light that LED Light bulbs and other fixtures emit, and this research has led to a wealth of discoveries which are being piloted with new LED technology. Many phone manufacturers and TV manufacturers are implementing this research into displays which are just as dazzling, but feature a mode which blocks blue light, for a much better nights sleep.