Sustainable Eye Health (SEH) is an Australian entity dedicated to the development of new technology for the support of eye-health both throughout life and throughout the world.

In our technically advanced nations our eye health and indeed our very systemic health and well being is exposed to relatively new threats. Indoor lighting has evolved relatively quickly over the past two decades. It’s now time that it was improved to not only illuminate a space but work in a positive way to maintenance of human health.

An immediate threat to our vision globally, is that over the past 30-40 years, myopia (short-sightedness) has increased 300% country to country on average. In some eastern Asian countries, 95% of university graduates are short-sighted. In Japan, 95% of 11-14 year olds are myopic. Ten percent of these face serious eye issues in late life as a consequence of their visual error being high which brings with it potentially serious complications with ageing.

Research conducted by the Brien Holden Vision Institute (2015) revealed that by 2050, half the world’s population will be myopic. For some, this can mean blindness in later years of life. Sustainable Eye Health developed a solution: a novel form of processor controlled LED illumination, offering a significant reduction in risk of myopia by strategic choices of wavelength, brightness and duration of luminance. Further to this, the precise same mechanisms of the eye that regulate eye-growth (and maintenance of a “normal” eye) govern the circadian rhythm. So with an improved formula for indoor lighting, two outcomes are simultaneously achieved- improved eye health and improved wake/sleep cycles that significantly improves overall health and well being.

This same improvement in the “light formula” for indoor lighting designed by SEH also addresses the so-called ‘blue-light hazard’- whereby certain (shorter) wavelengths of blue light potentially harm the retina at the back of the eye.

The potentially harmful short-blue wavelengths (415-455nm) are typically found in current LED lighting but are safely removed to provide the same ‘white light’ experience we enjoy for indoor illumination but without hazardous wavelengths with the improved design by SEH.