Bronze Lighting Products and Fixtures Design · 2023
Tunnelma CCT Led Lighting
by Janne Halttu
- A' Design Award 2023 Bronze Winner in Lighting Products and Fixtures Design
- Awarded April 15, 2023
- CLIENT: LedStore.fi
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 21,277
- Verification code 8B2E721E1E · Verify this award
About Tunnelma CCT Led Lighting
The company does about 500 lighting designs every year. Inspiration for development came during countless meetings with families while doing lighting design. Every situation is different and every room has different needs because of materials and textures. The product family was created to stop arguments about color temperature with customers and to provide high-quality (CRI98) LED lights for an affordable price range. Tunnelma CCT product family is designed to help installers and resellers to cut warehouse stock in half. It is Smart Home ready with support for Zigbee or DALI2.
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- Unique Properties
- We do about 500 lighting designs every year. Inspiration for development came during countless meetings with families while doing lighting design. Every situation is different and every room has different needs because of materials and textures. Product family was created to stop arguments about color temperature with customers and to provide high quality (CRI98) LED lights for affordable price range. Tunnelma CCT product family is also designed to help installers and resellers to cut warehouse stock in half. Tunnelma product family is Smarthome ready with support for Zigbee or DALI2.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Super High CRI. All products have CRI 95-98, 5-7 years quarantee. 24V
- Tags
- high cri, led lights, cct, led, led downlights, led panels, led strip
- Production Technology
- Full Alumimun frame. No plastics. HIGH quality led lights. Led lights have 3 wires with easy connection system, all lights are connected in series, 24DCV. Used with any well established CCT led driver or controller.
- Design Challenge
- Nothing really. Just money for few prtototypes and to start production.
- Project Duration
- CCT led Down Light prodcutd family started development in 2018 and launched 2019. CCT Led panels and CCT Led light strips launched in 2020.
- Operation Flow
- Product family has 2 options to choose from:
1. Basic: Customer chooses 2900K/4000/5500K with provided driver
2. Customisable: Remove led light driver and then light can be used freely 2900-5500K.
Connect to any smart lighting system, such as: DALI2, Zigbee, Z-Wawe, etc lighting system with their 24V led light driver. All Downlights have ready plug for our ready made cabling (3 meter wire male-female and 3 and 6 way splitters). OR you can use old 3 gang wiring. - Research
- Finnish construction field has typical way of building. Led light family needed to fit into 55mm maximim height for Finnish most common ceiling type and it needed apporox 600 Lumens for light output Light system also needed to be customizable for customer with HIGH CRI and quality components..
We already had good factory to output our downlights so after designing and drawing idea, they were consulted to find perfect led chip. We did only 3 rounds of prototypes and Tunnelma Led light series was done! - Inspiration
- Needs. Company background is building houses and there has always been argument about light temperature. After years of Selling led lights it was clear: Male prefer Cooler temperatures and Female prefer warmer tones. Now you can choose. Product also helps to cut warehouse stock in half.
- Image Credits
- Janne Halttu, Lamppukauppa Led Store Oy, 2019
- Patents
- Copyright for product family: LedStore.fi
Colors of Tunnelma CCT Led Lighting
Design Interview about Tunnelma CCT Led Lighting
Functionality, simplicity and elegance. No Compromises.
A real need in the market. In my work, I constantly encounter customers who cannot decide on the temperature of the lighting. There were different closed ecosystems on the market that are not very reliable in my experience and the range is limited. I wanted to solve the problem by offering a practical product family that does not tie the customer to a particular system and does not compromise on quality in the design of the light.
Looking for partners in whole EU area.
1 year total. Few iterations.
I wanted to do this make best possible product for every possible case. No matter if its regular household or office, no matter if its directly for customer or thru designer
We produce it and we are happy to sell it to anyone.
True interest in lighting design
Only our factory engineer that had to find me perfect components i requested.
Anyone who builds or renovates. This is perfect for all interior designers and lighting designers.
True possibility to choose any lighting control system.
TUNNELMA is Finnish word that translates "Mood". So you can create your own mood.
Windows Paint, pencil and paper.
Functionality
Only manufacturing factory engineer to source components I needed.
Huge. Its all about making technology to serve user. Its not required (BASIC delivery) but to make full use of these lights you should use Lighting control system. Such as Zigbee, Z-Wave, DALI2, etc..
Years of making lighting designs for households. Always same questions. "What colour temperature should I use?"
We are small company, so to mass produce it, bigger orders were mandatory.
I got requested.
I had to think and came to realise that I actually made good product!!
We will continue to develop and hopefully find our products in other countries than Finland.
Grand Interview about Tunnelma CCT Led Lighting
Actually A lot. This product family is more about function rather than visuals. Desinging was all done funtionatily first, installation easyness second and visual looks third. By making lighting designs to different homes with our team, we get constant feedback of differemt needs from customers. That always effects on design.
As all graphical designers, artists and painters know, high quality lights are VERY important to make sure that colors are as intended. For painter ie. making art and then shipping it to customer to only realise that painting colors are not right when diplayed at location, makes it wrong for art and artist. We have been making high CRI products for long time and giving same option to consumer, not just professional, is consumer right. More high quality lights come to market, makes all win.
Products are function first and therefore full aluminum is used to make LED lights last long time. Good heat dissipation makes LED chip last up to 50% longer! That also makes it so that light does not need replacement for long time and its sustainable. Products are also designed to be commercially viable with mass production and all models share components as much as possible.
This is not something that we have thought. Light is always neutral, but then again because its CCT tunable its always as you choose it to be. You can be warm and romantic or cool and collected. You can express yourself freely.
DALI has been for long time in commercial go-to system with KNX. We just make sure our products are compatible with those systems. As for regular households, Zigbee is not new system and therefore tested and proven system without problems. When using wireless technologies, we can save a lot og money with less cables, but also give freedom to consumer how to install everything, because control buttons are installed to wall after paiting is done. In my vision ALL new residential should be wireless and 85% of homes/renovations we design,already is.
Firstly, know what you want Then I made short list of most important features When designing product, I also had to think multiple products, so I ahd to know what components can be shared with other models After that I always make samples and test them, get feedback from others. Make changes, then its ready for mass production.
Finnish style of construction has been always an issue. Low dropceilings needs special requirements and that was first thing, first technical detail I wanted to tackle. Same time 600Lumens came from typical Halogen bulb that I was replacing.
CCT tuning gives customer freedom to choose color and us more shelf space! Before customer had to know what they wanted when buying lights. Now you have freedom to change mind. And We dont have to stock soma many variants of same lights. One fits for all!
Again we come back to function first. I knew what were important for installation, what makes light fit and easy to install. That was on my list during design process. It still is on all products we make.
Im trying to harmonise even more my product line to make it so that all parts are interchangeable. We have added more products into this TUNNELMA prodctline. Led strips, Led Panels and Downlights.