Light Cognitive

Beautiful light and clear skies within your reach. Light Cognitive delivers light, and with it, nature and optimism into your home. Light Cognitive is a Nordic innovation, created to overcome darkness. When founder Sami Salomaa, moved back to Finland after decades abroad, he found Helsinki’s long winters tough to handle. Rather than suffer in the dark, he got to work – finding a way for everyone to enjoy the benefits of beautiful light and clear skies all year round.

The next revolution in technology will come from scalable smart biologically effective systems. Light is one of the main drivers of the circadian system, which starts in the brain and regulates physiological rhythms throughout the body’s tissues and organs, affecting hormone levels and the sleep-wake cycle. Circadian rhythms are kept in sync by various cues, including light. The body’s response to light is facilitated by intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs): the eyes’ non-imageforming photoreceptors. Through ipRGCs, lights of high frequency and intensity promote alertness, while the lack of this stimulus signals the body to reduce energy expenditure and prepare for rest.

Light Cognitive can reproduce human-centric natural light, with an LED innovation that follows nature’s circadian rhythm. Our installations lessen feelings of claustrophobia and fatigue, bringing illumination and joy to dark spaces. Our progress in LED technology, digital control and machine learning algorithm allows us to produce controllable light fields similar to natural outdoors conditions. The lights are created based on physics models of the real sky.

A natural and smooth light gradient in infinite resolution creating a clear sky view in all its hues from dawn to dusk. The right light at the right time, to improve alertness, cognitive performance, recovery and sleep. Circadian light optimized for photopic and melanopic light. Anything from an automated day cycle to selected static scenes. Choose a static sunset for dinner parties, alpine mid-day to energize or sunrise time based on Jetlag management.

From boutique hotels to private homes, we always shed light on the essence. Light Cognitive’s bespoke installations offer great architectural freedom. They are made to a client’s specific requirements, allowing for custom dimensions, including very large sizes, custom shapes and custom light programs.