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Sharing insights on indoor air quality, sustainable lighting, and healthier built environments. Here to help people understand the science behind cleaner indoor spaces.
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Why Smart Buildings Need Real-Time Air Quality Monitoring
For a long time, I thought of air quality as something fixed. A room either had good air or bad air. If it felt stuffy, you opened a window. If people complained, someone adjusted the ventilation. The idea that air could change moment by moment was not something I ever considered.
By illumipure20 days ago in Journal
How CleanWhite LED Avoids Harmful Blue Peaks That Disrupt Sleep
Why does some light keep us awake and how does gentler light help the body rest? For a long time, I blamed restless nights on stress, screens, or busy days. I assumed sleep was something you either earned or missed depending on how much you had going on. Light never crossed my mind as a possible cause. After all, once the lights were off, the day was over.
By illumipure21 days ago in Journal
How the Right Light Can Make a Room Feel Safer and More Comfortable
I used to believe that safety in a room came from visible things. Solid walls. Clear exits. Locks on doors. Comfort came from temperature and furniture. Lighting, in my mind, belonged to neither category. It was simply there to make objects visible.
By illumipure22 days ago in Journal
How AI-Powered Sensors Detect VOCs, PM, and CO2 More Accurately
For a long time, air quality felt like something abstract to me. You could not see it, touch it, or measure it without specialized tools. A room either felt good or it did not. If it felt heavy, you opened a window. If it felt stale, you blamed the building. That was the extent of most people’s relationship with indoor air.
By illumipure25 days ago in Journal
What I Noticed When Light Started Doing More Than Brightening a Room
For most of my life, light was something I turned on without thinking. If a room was bright enough to see clearly, the job was done. Light had one purpose and that was illumination. I never questioned whether it could do anything more.
By illumipure26 days ago in Journal
The Moment I Realized Light Could Make a Room Feel Safer
I never used to think about lighting beyond whether it was bright enough to see. A switch was a switch. A room was either lit or unlit, safe or unsafe, clean or unclean. Lighting was the background, something that existed without shaping anything important. At least that is what I thought, until one moment made me see it differently.
By illumipure27 days ago in Journal
Do Your Eyes Feel Tired at Night Even When You Are Not?
There were nights when my eyes felt exhausted long before the rest of me did. I would sit in a room that looked perfectly normal and yet something in my vision would begin to tighten. A quiet pressure. A dull ache. A feeling that said I should stop even when my mind still felt awake.
By illumipureabout a month ago in Longevity
Why Filterless Air Purifiers Are the Future
I never thought much about the air inside the places where I spent most of my time. It was just something I moved through. If the air felt heavy, I blamed the weather. If a room smelled stale, I opened the window and forgot about it. Clean air was invisible, so it was easy to ignore.
By illumipureabout a month ago in Longevity
Circadian Lighting: Boosting Health & Productivity
I never imagined light could change the way I moved through a day. It was always just something in the background—bright enough to see, dim enough to relax, nothing to think too deeply about. But there was a time when I began noticing that certain rooms felt strangely different even when everything else looked normal. Some spaces made me feel clear and awake the moment I stepped in. Others felt like they stole my focus before I even sat down.
By illumipureabout a month ago in Longevity
How Visible Light Can Disinfect and Safeguard Our Spaces
I never used to think of light as anything more than something that helped us see. It was simple: a room was bright or dark, warm or cool, harsh or soft. Light shaped the mood of a place, sure, but it never crossed my mind that it could shape something deeper — the health of the space itself.
By illumipureabout a month ago in Longevity
Healthy Building Standards: What ASHRAE 241 Means for You
I used to think buildings were simple things. Walls, windows, doors, a thermostat that never seemed accurate — that was enough. As long as the lights worked and the room wasn’t too cold, I didn’t question much. The air inside a building was just… there. Invisible, familiar, something you only noticed when it was bad.
By illumipureabout a month ago in Longevity
Creating a Healthy Gym Environment With Light and Air: What I Didn’t Expect to Learn
I never thought much about the air inside a gym. The focus is usually on the weights, the mirrors, the noise, the sweat — the things you can see. Air, light, the atmosphere of a room… those always felt like background details. You notice them only when something feels wrong.
By illumipureabout a month ago in Longevity
