Balancing the brightness of surfaces and visual tasks in and around an employee’s personal workspace and adjusting these relative to the brightness of surrounding room surfaces reduces visual fatigue. In addition to delivering broad areas of personal task lighting, tambient luminaires spread light across the ceiling to provide glare-free ambient light that blends interior areas with daylit perimeter zones and eliminates the need for direct overhead lighting. Managing luminance ratios and eliminating glare reduces distraction and supports individual focus work.

Research shows that allowing employees to individually control lighting levels has a positive effect on worker satisfaction, productivity, and energy savings. When occupants can brighten their personal workspace, they are drawn to their work and experience fewer distractions.

Traditional office lighting systems indiscriminately illuminate task and non-task areas resulting in wasted energy and materials. Tambient achieves an efficient alignment of lighting and occupant needs resulting in reduced lighting power density and deep energy savings. Eliminating installed overhead lighting significantly reduces building wiring systems and construction timetables. This conserves natural resources, reduces the embodied energy of office buildings, and facilitates future renovations.

Easy to install, maintain, reconfigure and relocate. Universal and system-specific mounting accessories allow tambient lights to adapt to any new or existing office furniture. Wireless technology and mobile commissioning link tambient installations to any third-party lighting energy management system and allows facility managers to easily relocate tambient lights from one control zone to another, or from one building to another. When you need to make a change, tambient changes with you.

End-users have the option of sourcing and implementing tambient lighting via an electrical contractor or through their preferred office furniture supplier. Tambient lights also qualify for accelerated depreciation, allowing owners to write off the entire purchase in less than seven years (furnishings) instead of 39 years (building). Owning and operating costs are further reduced by walk-up, plug-and-play maintenance (no ladders required) which minimizes business disruptions and eliminates the need for after-hours servicing. Repositioning of tambient luminaires during office renovations and realignments is easily accomplished without the need for electricians and rewiring.