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New Windsor, N.Y. – Oct. 20, 2014 — Long days spent beneath cool electric light and a pervasive addiction to smart devices that often lasts into late nights is throwing off circadian rhythms, disrupting sleep/wake cycles and preventing people from performing at their best. Now more than ever, people need greater awareness about — and control over — the lighting they take for granted.
Driven to find a solution to these issues, USAI Lighting has developed Color Select, proprietary technology that shatters the boundaries of LED potential and is the first architectural LED downlighting fixture offering independent control of both color temperature and intensity.
USAI's Color Select brings personalized lighting to reality, with users able to tune white light over the broadest possible color temperature range, from a candlelight-like 2200K to the 6000K that's comparable to daylight. Users can also control intensity from 100 percent down to 0.1 percent using either standard roomside dimmers or programmable control systems.
“Color Select represents USAI Lighting’s unending quest to be at the forefront of LED illumination innovation,” said Bonnie Littman, company president and CEO. “As LEDs have risen in prominence, designers and consumers have been challenged to find precise optics and high performance LED fixtures.
"Color Select boasts unprecedented color versatility, beamspread options, and output, while granting people the control they desire over the lighting in their personal spaces – allowing them to adapt it to their personal needs. With research linking light’s spectrum to health outcomes, we’ve strived to harness the functionality and performance of LEDs to deliver every nuance of natural daylight knowing it has the potential to optimize health and even transform the way people perform, learn, and live.”
