Clever light ®
It is the new circadian friendly smart light project developed in collaboration between Pollice illuminazione and Be Sapiens S.r.l., the Milan-based team of chronobiologists, oncologists, cardiologists and technology transfer experts who study and develop ideas and solutions for health.
Due to the highly innovative features of the Clever light project, in the areas of development, scientific research and HCL technology, the project is supported with the contribution of resources from the European Union, the Italian State and the Lombardy Region, in application of Regulation (EU) 2021/1060 Articles 46,47, 50 and Annex IX.
When lighting becomes a health issue
Marco Pollice meets oncologist Marco Pirovano to bring health to the center of illumination with an innovative patented circadian friendly system.
HCL-controlled lighting that safeguards circadian rhythms.
Health through Clever light
The project is the result of important studies on the effects of light on our organism, which have emerged from long experience in lighting design and lighting design and in medical science and hospitals. At the theoretical basis is Chronobiology, the revolutionary science that studies periodic or cyclical phenomena in living organisms and their adaptation to relative solar rhythms.
Understanding the mechanisms that regulate the biological clocks of humans and other living things offers the key to opening up innovative pathways in the lighting industry as well.
The realization that light is no longer just a matter of well-being, of seeing and reading things correctly, but is the possibility of substantially improving our lives and taking preventive action on our health, has led us to believe that this discovery can represent a new vision for institutions, companies and individuals on the role of light as a key component in the design or renovation of an environment and the effects it can have on our health, productivity and emotionality.
The patented Clever light system is able to control the wavelength and intensity of light produced in the environment according to the time of day, season and latitude, taking into consideration other light sources: windows, lamps, colored walls, reflective surfaces, so as to maintain the perfect alignment of our biological clock with circadian rhythms, for a Human Centric Lighting design and, in this case, also Life Centric Lighting.
This is why we talk about circadian friendly light and intelligent light.
How it works
Clever light is a system consisting of a control unit and a spectrophotometric sensor that can accurately detect the light spectrum of the environment. Informed of this, the control unit will operate a counter reaction by acting through the light it controls, as a melatonin inhibitor, when necessary for the proper performance of our activities.
What is the novelty of Clever light?
Its peculiarity is that it is designed to control the user’s melanopic stimulus. Clever light acts in fact, as an activator and inhibitor of the substance responsible for melatonin release.
It ensures, in fact, adequate inhibition of melatonin production during the day and adequate stimulation of melatonin production during the evening and night hours.
What problem do we solve?
It is the problem related to changing lifestyles from how nature originally created us.
We spend between 80 percent and 90 percent of our lives indoors, numerous studies have solidified the finding that chronic misalignment between our lifestyle and the circadian rhythm, dictated by our circadian clock, endogenously may be associated with an increased risk of contracting various diseases, including cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, metabolic disorders, and inflammation.
Why do we believe in Clever light?
We believe it, and so do those who have been willing to support this important project, which has been supported by resources from the European Union, the Italian State and the Lombardy Region.
We have a strong team that dialogues, builds, researches and brings together many years of experience in lighting and medical science. Underlying this are the many studies dedicated to the effects of light on our bodies, carried out from different perspectives, skills and vantage points but with the common desire to improve our well-being by taking care of our health within the places where we work, care, live and cater.
We believe that innovation in this field is a necessity.
Is this technology patented?
Yes. The system and control unit are patent protected.
It is an innovation based on the combination of science, design and technology.
Industrial Invention Patent No.102017000099311, granted on 08/11/2019. Patent ownership BeSapiens S.r.l.
What is our target market?
housing: private houses and villas
Workplaces: offices, schools, universities, libraries
Welcoming places: hotels, restaurants, spas, gyms, hospitals, private clinics
Places to attract: museums, art galleries, stores, showrooms
design: thumb product or products from domestic and international companies customized Clever light
art: collaboration with artists and collectors
Who do we talk to about our innovation?
Health awareness is promoted to architects, engineers and all those involved in building new spaces around human beings.
We think of people who spend much of the day indoors, such as children, teens, students, day laborers and those on night shifts; those who are forced to sit still because they are prevented from moving or long stays in hospitals; those who travel and find refreshment from jet lag in hotels.
Does the system carry out a health prevention activity?
Now numerous scientific papers published in the largest and most prestigious international journals describe the damage to our health caused by artificial light if it is not designed properly and to safeguard our biological rhythms. Many steps have been taken in this direction with flexible and dynamic systems and innovative light sources.
With the Clever light system, they wanted to go a step further, and go to act directly on the melanopic stimulus, controlling through the light emitted, the release of melatonin during the hours of the day and night.
Let us not forget that this technology is largely the result of the vast experience of physicians, psychiatrists and oncologists who are the first to experience the psycho-somatic discomforts caused by the chronic misalignment of circadian rhythms on a daily basis.
Will our innovation have an environmental socioeconomic impact?
It will certainly be able to bring great health and productivity benefits,
