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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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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 illumipure2 months 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 illumipure2 months 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 illumipure2 months 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 illumipure3 months 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 illumipure3 months 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 illumipure3 months 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 illumipure3 months 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 illumipure3 months 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 illumipure3 months ago in Longevity
Visible Light vs UV-C: What I Learned While Trying to Clean the Air in Real Rooms
I didn’t start out caring about air disinfection or lighting wavelengths. Honestly, I didn’t even know what UV-C really was until a few years ago. All I knew was that the rooms I was working in—gyms, classrooms, meeting spaces—always seemed to feel “heavier” than they should. You know that sensation when you walk into a room and something feels off? Not dirty, not smelly, just… dense.
By illumipure3 months ago in Longevity
