Brandon Medical has won €1 million of research funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme, which it will use to lead a collaborative research consortium to develop future solid state lighting technologies for healthcare buildings.
The two-year ‘High Efficiency and Rendered Colour Using LED Solid State Lighting’, or ‘HERCULES’ project, will be led by Brandon Medical’s MD, Graeme Hall, and is a collaboration between Brandon and commercial partners, Spanish firm, Diseño y Tecnologia del Molde CUMSA, and Italy’s GRD Segnaletica Stradale di PR. Target. Brandon says HERCULES will produce ‘a step-change solution for LED-based illumination systems’. It said: “It is based on an original concept that combines the light from different LED sources to produce near perfect colour rendition, and variable colour temperatures, with high energy efficiency. It will mean fewer LEDs for the same light power output, reducing energy consumption and costs. HERCULES will provide the normal benefits of LED lighting, including instant start-up and efficient dimming, but will also allow tuneable colour rendering.” Graeme Hall will lead a research consortium including two top UK research institutions, and Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which will provide testing facilities for the technologies in a clinical environment. UK-based solid state lighting technology company, Sagentia, will act as lead technical organisation, working alongside TWI, a not-for-profit research and technology organisation.
