BenQ is one of the monitor manufacturers that invests the most budget in R&D to create new technologies, and especially those dedicated to visual health care . In the last generation of monitors they have incorporated a new technology called BenQ Brightness Intelligence , and in this article we are going to explain what it is and how it works to help us preserve better visual health if we spend many hours in front of the screen.
When a screen is in a room with low light, we are forced to force our eyes to focus the image. On the other hand, if there is a lot of ambient light, the eye should make an effort to avoid glare caused by the reflection of light on the monitor. Brightness Intelligence technology promises to help us combat these two problems in one fell swoop.
What is Brightness Intelligence technology?
Many times we have talked about having a good ambient light in the place where we have the PC is essential to avoid straining our eyes, something especially important if we spend many hours in front of the screen.
Brightness Intelligence technology incorporates an ambient light sensor in the monitor, and although many will say that there are many monitors that have this, the way it works on BenQ monitors is different since it not only serves to automatically adjust the brightness of the monitor, it is also capable of adjusting the color temperature .
It is something similar to the Nightshift technology that some smartphones incorporate, but much more precise and complete since it is not a matter of configuring the screen with yellow tones, but as it detects the ambient light conditions through the sensor, both brightness and the color temperature is automatically adjusted accordingly.
You can see it perfectly explained in the following video, in which the company released the technology with its EW2770QZ monitor.
Keep in mind that not all brand monitors incorporate this technology and, in fact, those that do have it on two levels. On the one hand we have the normal Brightness Intelligence option, which only modifies the screen brightness automatically as some monitors on the market already do. The really interesting and the one we recommend is the Brightness Intelligence + technology, which in addition to modifying the brightness is also capable of changing the color temperature of the monitor automatically.
What benefits does this technology provide for visual health?
As we have mentioned before, depending on the ambient light and the brightness and color temperature of the screen we will have to force more or less the view to be able to focus the screen, as well as not to be dazzled by it. At specific times this can be annoying but it is not that it will generate visual health problems, but the problem comes when you have to be many hours a day every day in front of the monitor, which can cause serious damage to your eyesight.
Having to force your eyes causes eye fatigue, which encourages tiredness and headaches, and even increases stress by never being completely comfortable in front of the screen. Similarly, the eyes dry out earlier and itch when irritated, forcing us to blink much more than we should, and this can even lead to nausea.
In short, taking care of visual health is very important and especially the more time we spend in front of the screens. BenQ Brightness Intelligence technology helps us to avoid all these symptoms automatically, since as we have seen it is capable of detecting ambient lighting and adjusting both the brightness and the color temperature of the monitor automatically and without having to worry about a thing.