The daily and seasonal cycles of spectral and

intensity content in the sunlight that reaches the earth’s surface

constitutes a natural pacemaker for activity in the terrestrial
biosphere. In humans and most mammals, the evolutionary
consequence of this rhythmicity is the existence of a circadian
rhythm, which regulates various vital activities such as the
production of hormones, mating and feeding times, and sleep
according to the solar angle and the characteristics of the daylight.
Thus there is a spectral-temporal relationship underpinning the
rhythmicity that got built into us over the ~1,000,000 years of
evolution but now has to learn to cope with the abrupt changes
brought in by electric lighting ~100 years ago, To improve human
quality of life and wellness, it is desired to incorporate the principal
characteristics of daylight’ rhythmicity in lighting. Here we describe
a smart LED lighting system capable of reproducing daylight’s
changes in relative spectral power and circadian content with time-
of-day. It achieves high-fidelity reproduction of daylight’s spectral
and circadian content as a function of time in a compact, relatively
inexpensive and novel system that could readily be adapted for
production and may offer an additional yet unstudied solutions in
areas were lighting as therapy are being developed.