Lyralux lights the way for its Dim to Vivid commercial lighting technology

Have you ever noticed that colors start to fade and blend together at lower light levels? Due to how our eyes process color, the dimmer the light source, the less vivid a color appears. This can be a particular challenge for people trying to distinguish colors in low lighting environments like museums and restaurants. Fortunately, Penn State Professor of Architectural Engineering Kevin Houser has developed a technology at Penn State and formed a startup, called Lyralux, to solve this problem. The patent-pending technology, Dim to Vivid, is a light source technology with a highly engineered variable spectrum that works by differentially adjusting varying LEDs, which emit different colors of light. The light — or spectra — can be effectively “tuned” to compensate for the way people see and recognize colors at fluctuating light levels.