Improve the wellbeing of people living with dementia.
An intelligent biodynamic lighting system.
How we live is changing, technology and design are powerful tools but they need to be human centric and focused on enriching and enabling a better quality of daily life for those who need care.
The skyjoy story
Watch our introduction film and meet the founders. Learn about skyjoy’s origins and the technology behind the skyjoy system.
Enhance dementia care environments
There are currently around 850,000 people with dementia in the UK. This is projected to rise to 1.6 million by 2040.
- Alzheimer’s society
Currently 850,000 people in the UK are living with dementia and this will rise to over a million by 2025 creating a huge burden on carers, families and governments emotionally and financially.
We are only beginning to understand the effects of dementia and current studies are far from a cure. Positively, what we do know is that light – daylight and artificial plays a vital role in our wellbeing. In developed countries we are often starved of natural light, but intelligently applied artificial light can entrain our circadian response.
circadian lighting intelligent sensing cloud based AI
Founders
Bringing together the specialist fields of dementia design, lighting, artificiaI intelligence and IoT.
Skyjoy was founded by Dr Pamela Topping and Lloyd Crawford and is supported by Chroma Lighting and an interdisciplinary team from Ulster University. We are researching the benefits of installing the skyjoy system to help reduce anxiety and improve care of people living with dementia.
“Care homes can dramatically improve quality of life through human centric lighting design.”
- Dr. Pamela Topping