What are the Harm of Lighting Glare? -Benefits of Low Glare Lighting Fixtures

Glare is an visual condition on the field of vision that can cause discomfort and reduce visibility due to an improper distribution of lighting intensity, or extreme contrast of lighting intensity in space or time. Glare causes a sense of brightness in the field of vision that the human eye cannot adapt to, which can lead to disgust, discomfort and even loss of visual acuity. The generation of glare has a direct relationship with  the optical design, installation height, arrangement and use environment of lamps.

What are the harm of lighting glare?

Lighting Glare is classified as a big reason of causing poor illuminating quality in the lighting industry and it needs to be addressed further. Research shows that about 70 percent of people have an aversion to glare in daily work, life and sports. so how many types can lighting glare be divided into? What on earth are the harm of lighting glare?

• Adaptive glare, adaptive glare refers to the vision loss that occurs when a person moves from dark place to bright place, and the lost vision can be restored after a short period of adaptive time.adaptive glare is less harmful in many places because the recovery time for vision is very short.However, if it occurs during driving, for instance, at the tunnel exit ,it is necessary to choose suitable led tunnel lighting to reduce the unsafe effects of this glare.
• Inadaptable glare, inadaptable glare refers to the vision discomfort caused by inappropriate lighting intensity distribution and a high-brightness light source existing within the visual range. When confronted with this type of glare, people tend to avoid visual damage subconsciously by the method of visual escape. Prolonged exposure to this type of glare can lead to visual fatigue, sore eyes, watery eyes and impaired vision. inadaptable glare is common in life.
• Disabling glare, disabling glare refers to reduced visual function or temporary blindness caused by glare from light source. Disabling glare is easy to understand and common. It is believed that many of us have experienced the experience of looking at the sun for a long time or being dazzled by the high beam of a car, resulting in a black eye.

1. Glare make you have to squint your eyes when playing on sports field which seriously affect the movement experience.
2.  Strong glare of the workplace in factory will make the workers work less efficiently, easy to fatigue, and even make mistakes in work.
3. Strong glare in supermarkets will seriously affect consumers' shopping experience, weaken the attractiveness of goods and reduce their consumption desire. Consumers' overall impression of the whole supermarket is greatly reduced.
4. Glare problem of street lamps is often complained by residents - They claimed that it will affect their health, cause insomnia, disrupt circadian rhythms and will be not good for children, animals and anyone.

Benefits of low glare lighting fixtures

Where there is light, there is glare, either high or low. Intense glare will seriously affect lighting quality. In order to improve people's satisfaction with lighting effect, reasonable restriction and anti-glare measures must be taken. Low glare lighting fixtures can solve this problem at source. To understand low glare lamps, we can start from the benefits of low glare luminaires in various application scenes.

Low glare lighting fixture for factory

A pleasant working environment is more likely to produce high quality products.Installing low glare led high bay light in factory can reduce workers' anxiety and make workers more focused on their work, reducing the rate of work error. This can result in big savings when compared to high glare lamps and low CCT traditional industrial lighting products, and a higher return on investment.

Low glare lighting fixture for sports field 

The anti-glare led sports light, at the beginning of design, will get properly handled in the design and give enough considerations on backlight control, upward-light control and glare control. so when the sports lights meeting the requirements are used on the high mast of stadium. it will deliver an even and excellent lighting spread and bring athletes, spectators, and judges an extraordinary visual feast of sport events. 

Low glare lighting fixture for street

Some agencies seem to be aware of the glare problem caused by street lights and develop a set of standards to regulate and solve this problem.The key technology to solve the problem of street light glare is to design different light distributions for them so that the street lamps only light up the area where should be illuminated. The people complaints about street light glare fade away since the problem is resolved as a result.

Low glare lighting fixture for supermarket

Consumers have their own ideas when it comes to choosing which supermarket to shop at.for them, the shopping experience is important. Supermarket lamps with low glare and high CRI are a way to attract customers to the store by creating an atmosphere of light. Therefore, installing such lights in supermarkets will help attract customers, improve customers' shopping experience, and create more profits for supermarkets.

Low glare lighting fxiture for tunnel

Reasonable lighting design can effectively reduce tunnel accidents and improve drivers' driving safety. As far as the safety hazards at tunnel exit is concerned,the ingenious design of tunnel lighting is an effective way to solve this problem. Proper tunnel lighting with dimming function can gently change the lighting level from the tunnel entrance area, intermediate area to the tunnel exit area without without giving the driver the sense of obvious light change, at the same time, solving the glare problem from low-light area to high-light area.