Precision Lighting Control: Optimizing Illumination for Aquatic Environments

Control is an important, but often overlooked, part of any lighting system. Proper control of light can improve welfare by reducing stress and improving visual acuity whilst also resulting in cost savings through reduced energy use, improved feed efficiency, and reduced mortality. Lighting control is vitally important to entrain animals’ internal clocks, therefore regulating hormone production, improving wellbeing, and allowing for consistent breeding patterns and reproductive cycles. 

Biosystems offer a wide range of control options to be used with various lights, from wireless control systems designed with retailers in mind (AquaBar Pro) to hardwired large controllers that can offer seasonal variation (Biolumen Pro Control).

With the right level of control, you can achieve more than you might think…

Our basic controllers allow for an on-time, off-time, ramp time (the time taken to move from on to off and vice versa), and a maximum and minimum level (minimum being the level the lights will move to in their off phase). This can be particularly useful in applications that require very low light levels in the 'dark' phase of the photoperiod (but not off completely).

More advanced control options allow different settings for different days of the week. This can be useful for control based on changing opening times and trading hours.

Further to this we are able to offer cutting-edge control that allows photoperiod settings based on a user-entered geographical location and even seasonal variation of day length. This kind of control can be used for research purposes and even to create seasonal responses in animals, such as keeping racehorses in peak condition, affecting seasonal breeding cycles, or simulating migration between specific coordinates.