Glare problem in store lighting design

Glare is commonly referred to as "dazzling". It can make people feel dazzling and cause eye pain. In daily life, glare can be seen everywhere. At night, the high beam of the car, the projection lamp of the road, and the spotlight of the shopping mall shining directly at people may make people feel uncomfortable. These are the effects of glare.

In store lighting design, glare has great potential harm. In stores with glare, the eyes will feel tingling, the comfort is not good, it is easy to make people upset, it will also greatly reduce the attractiveness of products, reduce the desire of customers to stay, and thus affect the flow of people and business in the store.

The business environment requires a comfortable experience for customers. It not only requires proper display of goods, but also requires a natural and comfortable lighting environment to bring pleasant feelings to customers, so as to facilitate transactions. This is also the effect that all shopkeepers want.

The lighting design of modern commercial shop space is not a question of whether it is bright or not, but more about the comfort of lighting.

People who have been to Western restaurants and five-star hotels know that in these places, both the color of lights and the overall illumination level bring people a sense of comfort.

Because a large number of anti glare lamps and anti glare lighting methods are used in these places, especially the lighting method of "seeing light but not seeing light", which is often said. This kind of lighting method is valued in various places and widely used.

Designers of some high-end brand stores have strict requirements on light quality parameters, product selection and light distribution: they put forward higher requirements for light sources with high visibility, high fidelity, high saturation and low blue light, and try to use anti glare products for functional lighting fixtures.

What are the factors causing glare?

→ brightness of the light source itself

→ the brightness and shading angle of the reflector of the lamp are unreasonable

→ size of light source

→ background brightness of surrounding environment

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It also turns on the high beam of the car. It's obviously different at night and in the evening.

This is related to the background brightness of the environment: especially in the dark environment, as long as there are bright spots, we will feel dazzling and uncomfortable.

We should have experienced the phenomenon of environmental background brightness factor: the indicator light of the air conditioner or TV in the bedroom (the original brightness is not high), but it will still be dazzling after turning off the light, affecting the rest. This is also the reason.

Everyone advocates a healthy lighting environment in the lighting environment. In addition to meeting the lighting quality requirements, the on-site lighting requirements are not dazzling, and the anti glare effect is good, which is also the embodiment of healthy lighting.

Glare mainly affects the comfort of our eyes. Are all glares bad and should be strictly controlled?

Not really.

It is necessary to control glare in places where people work and watch for a long time, such as places for more than 30 minutes.

Some places need to properly introduce glare to attract people's attention: such as convenience stores, supermarkets, billboards, light boxes, display screens, etc. (but the brightness should be controlled so as not to cause damage to vision).