Daylighting Solutions

One of the latest trends in energy efficiency are Daylighting Systems. Daylighting is the use of design and technology to use sunlight as the primary lighting source for building interiors during the daytime. Taking skylights to the next level, Daylighting Solutions range in shape, size, and technology to best accommodate each building application to ensure the most efficient lighting design. When Daylighting is used to the best of it’s abilities, the building interior should be able to utilize sunlight all day long and allow for artificial lighting to remain off so long as the sun is above the horizon. But, all Daylighting Solutions are not created equal and there are many different Daylighting products on the market of varying efficiencies and costs.

The main difference between Daylighting Solutions is whether the product is an Active or Passive Daylighting system. Daylighting systems will often include diffusion lenses, highly-reflective tubular systems, and advanced domes to make daylight the most important element to a spaces lighting. Passive daylighting systems are a stationary option, much like a typical skylight, that often utilizes a specific lens design or tubular daylighting addition to bring sunlight further indoors, at higher levels than a simple skylight. Active Daylighting Systems, on the other hand, utilize moving parts on top of specific lens design and/or tubular daylighting parts. Ciralight Global’s Suntracker Daylighting Solution is an active Daylighting system that reflects sunlight indoors consistently all day long. Because of it’s active nature, the Ciralight Suntracker brings up to 300% more daylight indoors than a typical passive skylight.

Daylighting Solutions

Energy efficiency, global climate changes, and the never ending rise in utility costs have turned many heads towards Daylighting Solutions recently. Though the application of sunlight to illuminate building interiors has been long applied through the use of windows, Daylighting as a craft has really become a dynamic design element for new and existing buildings. From the use of mirrors for reflection to the use of prismatic lenses for diffusion of sunlight has brought strides to the daylighting industry, curbing the persistant complaints with passive skylights regarding low light levels and hot spots. Having overcome the challenges of design issues and lacking technology, Daylighting Solutions have become a standard in the building industry and are no longer a taboo topic.

Ciralight’s Suntracker Daylighting Solution is one of the premiere technologies in the Daylighting industry. Utilizing a Solar-Powered GPS Controller, the Suntracker is self-powered and self-programming, following the sun throughout the entire day. Using the GPS Controller’s program, the unit discovers where on Earth it is located and, based on it’s calculations, rotates a mirror array within the Suntracker dome to direct sunlight down into a highly reflective lightwell into the building and through a bottom diffusor lens to deliver abundant sunlight at all times of the day, all year long. With a proper design in place, the Suntracker Daylight Solution should be able to replace artificial lighting as the primary source of illumination during the daytime.

Along with the practice of Daylighting come many benefits. These benefits include savings on Utility Costs from the electricity left unused; Maintenance savings from the reduction in replacement of bulbs, repairs on fixtures, and labor costs; and an Enhanced Human Experience living underneath lighting fixtures producing abundant natural illumination. While the cost savings of Daylighting Solutions is often the reason why one adopts Daylighting in their building, it’s the innumerable and invaluable human elements that make the practice so worthwhile.

Under natural Daylighting, humans thrive. In school settings, students learn at faster rates and show improved test scores; in retail, net sales improve, customer loyalty increases, and customers shop longer; in the workplace, employees show higher morale, less absenteeism, and higher productivity; in health care, there’s a increased rate of recovery; and for each individual, there’s preventative health measures that help reduce the risk or improve the condition of eye strain, Circadian rhythms, Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), skin conditions, and vitamin D deficiency. So many benefits, one source; sunlight. Imagine how much more productive and healthy the world would be if every building implemented Daylighting Solutions like Ciralights Suntracker series of skylights.

To find out more about what Ciralight and our Suntrackers can do for you, or to learn more about the Daylighting Industry, please contact one of our Daylighting representatives today at (877) 520-5005. We look forward to Daylighting the world with you, one building at a time.